City Link to extend hours with mixed funding options approved
City commissioners approved extending City Link operating hours as part of a plan to expand from a three to four bus system. The move involves debating a higher city share to fund 2008 and 2009 budgets, with projections of increased ridership and a bus replacement, plus plans to hire an additional dispatcher and part-time drivers.
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Burgardt
Kansas Department of Transportation
KDOT
CityLink
Reno County
Curran
John Doll
City Link
Doll
Nancy Harness
Reynaldo Mesa
Duane West
West
Matt Allen
Allen
Mesa
Past to Present 4-H Projects Show Local Heritage
Students explore historical tasks like shearing and bread making to learn the challenges settlers faced in southwest Kansas. The Gerber family notes modern tools speed work, while 4-H still teaches responsibility through sheep and pig projects and cost records.
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Kansas
Pierceville-Plymell
Gerber
Annie
Ellie
Jennifer Gerber
Jennifer
Court to hear challenge to gambling law in Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court justices will hear a challenge to a 1994 law expanding gambling. The case questions whether state owned and operated casinos are constitutional and could determine the fate of proposed resorts in Wyandotte Cherokee Sumner and Ford counties and racetrack slot machines in Kansas City and Frontenac. If upheld the state aims for about 200 million dollars yearly in revenue. if struck down the casino plan could end Kansas resort gambling.
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Topeka
Kansas Supreme Court
Shawnee County
Charles Andrews
Wyandotte
Cherokee
Sumner
Ford
Kansas City
Frontenac
Kansas
Kansas Lottery
Supreme Court
Kathleen Sebelius
Attorney General’s Office
Andrews
Lottery
Downtown Vision receives city funding despite funding decline
Commissioners approved continued support for Downtown Vision as the group aims to raise 120000 for its new fiscal year while the county has reduced its contribution from 15000 to 2500. City leaders credit downtown revitalization goals and discuss potential collaboration with Finney County Economic Development Corp.
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Allen
Mesa
Garden City
Glass
Downtown Vision
Liz Sosa
Randall Grisell
Volun
Tarily
Grisell
Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission
J.R. Behan
John Doll
Finney County Economic Development Corp
Doll
Nancy Harness
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Veera Punt
Ianro Maes
Weac
Finney County
Santa Fe Trail
Lee Richardson Zoo
Historicalarmory.com
Finney
Patriot Guard Rider's
Lee Ata Garden City, KS
Aess
Commerce Bank
Bancshares, Inc
Bandshares
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