Kansas faces 345 million shortfall and tax policy tensions
Kansas lawmakers, citing a 345 million budget shortfall, debate spending cuts and tax policy. Officials note deflation reduces sales tax revenue as receipts drop to 5.98 billion this year and 5.536 billion next year. Analysts cite Brownback tax policy and ongoing fiscal pressures shaping revisions and proposals for late year budgeting.
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D-Topeka
Sam Brownback
Kansas
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Shawn Sullivan
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Finalist Burnfin reshapes classroom with student-led learning
Crystal Apple finalist Burnfin at Bernardino Sitts Intermediate Center champions student choice and alternative seating to boost engagement. She lets students design their own holidays like Chancla Fridays and connects learning to their lives while modeling perseverance. Other finalists include Michelle Baier and Sarah Drubinskiy.
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Crystal Apple
Michelle Baier
Holcomb High School
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Veteran Colonel's journey from bricklayer to Marine auditor and business leader
Retired Colonel Rietsch recounts flunking out after one semester, becoming a bricklayer, then earning a philosophy degree at the University of Minnesota in 1966. He joined the Marines, flew 651 combat missions in F 4s earning the Distinguished Flying Cross, and later held key commands including Desert Storm leadership of Marine Air Group 11 70. He served as military aide to the Navy undersecretary, taught as Top Gun instructor, earned 60 Air Medals, and post service led McDonnell Douglas regional sales in the Middle East and later became president of Federal Signal Technologies before retiring to a Wyoming ranch.
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Grate
McDonnel Douglas Aircraft Company
Middle East
al Khaldia Group
Vesystems
Federal Signal Technologies
Wyoming
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