Lawrence approves 40-cent monthly surcharge for power line move
The Kansas Corporation Commission allows Western Resources to bill Lawrence electric customers a 40-cent monthly surcharge for five years to recover about 465,000 dollars in extra costs incurred when relocating a high voltage power line after Pinckney neighborhood protests. The rate could rise if the move worsens interference with Santa Fe Railway communications equipment.
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Western Resources
Lawrence Electric
KPL
Lawrence
Western Resources Inc
Santa Fe Railway
Western
David Schlosser
KCC
Pinckney
Commission
Schlosser
ECC
City Commission
Suit in Wichita settles harassment claim using tax funds
Sedgwick County treasurer Jerry McCoy settled a sexual harassment complaint by allowing deputy Karen Reinhardt to continue pay while not working from April 1 until late September. Reinhardt to be paid 1,446 every two weeks, totaling 18,798 plus benefits, with no public approval or final county determination. Some commissioners questioned the propriety of using tax money for the settlement.
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Wichita
Sedgwick
Wichita Eagle
Jerry McCoy
Karen Reinhardt
McCoy
Melody Miller
Reinhardt
The
Eagle
Hobos gather in Baldwin for Hobo Days festivities
Hobos from around the world arrive in Baldwin after a Britt Iowa convention to promote Hobo Days. Earlie Maury, 78, patri arch of the hobos, awaits as rail rides, poetry, songs, and a costume contest draw visitors. Rail trips run Saturday and Sunday from Baldwin to Nowhere with fees.
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Baldwin
Maury
Britt
Iowa
Midland Railway
Ernie Griffin
Hobo Days
Nowhere
Kansas Cornfields
Santa Fe
Mike Yoder
Journal
KU GTAs file unfair labor complaint over pay dispute
The graduate teaching assistants at Kansas University filed an unfair labor complaint against Chancellor Robert Hemenway the KU Board of Regents and state agencies alleging retaliation for unionization and blocking a cost of living raise. The union seeks parity with faculty raises claiming 1 035 GTAs deserve a $300 raise totaling $160000 while KU says no money was earmarked by the 1995 Legislature and mediators may be appointed to resolve the salary dispute.
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Kansas University
Kansas Board of Regents
Gtas
Kansas
Karen Hellekson
GTA
Robert Hemenway
Board of Regents
Kansas Department of Administration
Marc Adin
PERB
Adin
Mike Johnson
Adfn
Sixth Street widening approved to handle traffic surge
Lawrence commissioners on a 3-2 vote moved ahead with widening a 1.25 mile stretch of U.S. Highway 40 from Wakarusa Drive to the South Lawrence Trafficway. They seek about 4.6 million state aid, with a Sept 1 application deadline for 1999 highway funds, while noting the project competes with other Kansas requests and the costly trafficway.
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Sixth Street
Lawrence
Wakarusa Drive
South Lawrence
Bob Moody
Kansas
Allen Levine
Jo Andersen
Levine
West Sixth
Linda Finger
Sixth
Kasold Drive
23Rd
Iowa Streets
Mike Wildgen
Iowa Street
Topeka
Wildgen
West Sixth Street
City seeks county OK to reallocate grant plan
Lawrence city officials need Douglas County approval to pursue state grants for widening West Sixth Street. An agreement from 2 1/2 years ago blocked competition for the Eastern Parkway funds through 1999. City Manager Mike Wildgen will request county consent to modify the pact.
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Lawrence
Douglas County Commission
West Sixth Street
Mike Wildgen
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