Senate pushes SCR 1601 to change Kansas judicial selection
Kansas Senate debates SCR 1601 to reform how judges are chosen. Conservatives who gained a strong majority back the measure, while Democrats warn it politicizes the judiciary and could reduce minority access. The House also weighs a similar plan aimed to place the amendment on the November 2014 ballot.
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Emporia
Anthony Hensley
Topeka
Brownback
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
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Kansas City
Judicial Nominating Commission
Kansas Bar Association
Greg Smith
Overland Park
Bar Association
House
GOP
Standoff in Midland City as gunman holds hostage boy
A gunman identified as Jimmy Lee Dykes holed up in a bunker with a 5 year old hostage after hijacking a stopped school bus in Midland City Alabama. SWAT teams surrounded the rural property while negotiators sought the boy’s safe release amid an ongoing standoff with no known demands as of Wednesday evening. Authorities evacuated nearby homes and searched for what appeared to be a bomb on the suspect’s property. The bus driver Charles Albert Poland Jr. died protecting the students.
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Midland City
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Alabama
Charles Dysart
Jimmy Lee Dykes
Wally Olson
Michael Senn
Steve Clouse
Charles Albert Poland Jr
Bible Belt
Poland
Clouse
GOP seeks constitutional fix to end school funding suit
Kansas Republican leaders propose a constitutional amendment to grant the Legislature exclusive power over school funding in an effort to moot a lawsuit that demands higher state education spending. The proposal adds a new sentence to the education article, aims for ballot approval by August 2014, and faces opposition from education officials, Democrats, and many moderates who warn it would allow shortchanging schools.
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Jeff King
Senate Education Committee
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Associated Press
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Kansas Supreme Court
Anthony Hensley
Topeka
Hensley
Law panel OKs land swap for KU and endowment group
The House committee approved a bill allowing Kansas University and the KU Endowment Association to swap two parcels of land. KU owns a vacant lot north of the Mississippi Street parking garage between Oread Avenue and Mississippi Street. The city plans to replace water towers opposite the garage, with two lower profile towers among the options.
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Oread Avenue
Lawrence
KU Game Plan Aims to Swap Endowment Land for Parking Lot
Theresa Gordzica told the House Education Budget Committee KU will swap its land for a parcel owned by the Endowment Association on 14th Street between Louisiana and Ohio streets. Both parcels were appraised equal in value and the committee approved House Bill 2071 for full House consideration. Sixteen year old Lawrence resident Bianoa Wallace Demby attended Obama’s swearing in with family calling it a historic moment as the first black president elected twice.
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Endowment Association
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Gordzica
Wallace-Demby
Barack Obama
Obama
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