Phillips posters foster care family in Kansas
Robert and Joy Phillips fostered since 2000 and have adopted four children Noah six Hope five Peace four and Christian three all victims of neonatal drug exposure. Head Start programs aid them as they prepare for school and social skills. A fundraiser Saturday at Lone Star Steakhouse supports the Kansas Children Service League.
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Joy Phillips
Noah
Hope
Peace
Christian
Kansas
Service League
Phillips
Kansas Children’s Service League
Joy
Garden City
Rural Policy Authority proposal eyed to curb Kansas population decline
Kansas Farm Bureau and allies seek a legislative push this winter to establish a Rural Policy Authority linking public and private entities. The plan aims to boost rural growth, attract movers, and lure graduates back to Kansas communities, with funding uncertain but potential foundation support discussed by President Steve Baccus. Senate President Steve Morris backs a bill advancing the idea.
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Kansas Farm Bureau
Steve Baccus
Baccus
Minneapolis
Senate
Steve Morris
Docking Building slated for internal reconstruction at $77 million
TOPEKA AP The state would spend 77 million to gut the Docking State Office Building opposite the statehouse and rebuild it inside. Administrators and lawmakers question the cost and how to relocate about 1500 displaced workers. The 1956 building shows poor ratings with plumbing, electrical, lighting and fan systems dating from 1955. Senate President Steve Morris expressed disappointment at the building's condition.
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Topeka
Statehouse
Department of Administrations
State Buildings Committee
Marilyn Jacobson
Senate
Steve Morris
R. Hugoton
GEMS event empowers girls in engineering math science
About 150 seventh grade girls at St. Dominic Parish Center joined the Girls in Engineering, Math and Science program. They debated whether men should lead high paying careers and tried activities such as counting Skittles as pills in a pharmacy workshop led by Kristi Cofer.
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Abe Hubert
Zaiar Cisneros
Marisela Dianda
St. Dominic Parish Center
Kristi Schmitt
Finney County
Judy Crumble
Garden City Community College
Crumble
Southwest
Kansas
Kristi Cofer
St. Catherine Hospital
Cofer
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