Zoning push to allow semi truck parking in Garden City area
Finney County Planning Commission recommends changing zoning rules to permit semitrailer parking at residences under a conditional use permit. Officials cited chronic trash and abandoned trailers in Golf Acres and T-Bone Stakes and urged stricter enforcement past policy years. Local truckers pressed for a compromise after a March town hall and ongoing complaints about noise, waste, and property devaluation.
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Planning Commission
Finney County
Board
Garden City
Bill King
King
T-Bone Stakes
Golf Acres
Finney County Commission
Brownback questions Kansas Supreme Court selection process
Brownback sides with a lawsuit arguing the method for picking Kansas high court justices violates voters rights by letting attorneys control appointments. Nine court nominees and four attorneys have applied to fill the vacancy amid GOP concerns about accountability and past abortion rulings.
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Topeka
Sam Brownback
U.S
Kansas
Supreme Court
Brownback
Commission
GOP
Sherriene Jones-Sontag
Mark Parkinson
Robert Davis
Birth tourism debate centers on citizenship of immigrant babies
A Pew study finds eight percent of 4.3 million U S births in 2008 had at least one illegal parent but critics overstate the scope of birth tourism. Many children of illegal immigrants are born to parents who have lived in the United States for years, shaping a heated political argument over the 14th Amendment.
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San Juan
Texas
Ruth Garcia
U.S
Garcia
Pew Hispanic Center
United States
United
Producers await dry corn before harvest across region
Co op officials report corn moisture running 10.5 to 14.5 percent as fields near readiness. Harvest is expected to ramp up after Labor Day with dryland corn already being picked in Haskell and lighter yields in other counties. Kansas farmers planted 4.7 million acres, a record since 1936, as officials forecast a huge corn crop this year.
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United Prairie Ag
Grant County
Dodge City Co-op
Cimarron
Greeley County
Dan Hild
Tribune Grain
Warren Devore
United
Gary Friesen
Scott Co-op Association
Friesen
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
KASS
Kansas
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