Fort Riley to cut 160 civilian jobs in 16.2 million trim
Fort Riley will eliminate about 160 civilian positions and pare maintenance after a 16.2 million budget cut. The 1999 base is 134 million, down more than 10 percent from last year, with 130 roles currently filled. About 50 will be fired, others may take early retirement, jobs to go by December 14. Soldiers lose kitchen duty. cuts hit libraries, cable, auto crafts, custodial contracts, and postpone roof, road, bridge work.
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Fort Riley
Fort
Kent Thomas
Thomas
Army
Post
Electrocution Kills 2 Kansans in Nebraska Field
Two Kansas men were electrocuted and a third critically injured while stringing 13,000 volt cable in a Sarpy County cornfield. Wet ground may have conducted the current. The workers, from Kansas, were employed by Galaxy Cablevision of York. A helicopter evacuated the injured man to a hospital. he later moved to St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center in Lincoln in critical condition. OSHA investigates potential safety violations.
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York
Sarpy County
Omaha
St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center
Lincoln
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Country Corner School aims for low stress private education
Janis Fisher Miskimins plans a secular, nonaccredited high school four miles west of Kasold to help underserved students thrive. With seven teachers and a 10:1 student ratio, the 5 acre site will offer music, horseback riding, art, and outdoor theater. Tuition is 5800 annually. the school opens August 20 with Paula as the lone enrolled student so far.
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Field of Dreams
Ray Kinsella
Janis Fisher Miskimins
Fisher Miskimins
Paula
Kasold
Miskimins
State of
Kansas
Country Corner
Jean Johnston
Johnston
Christine Schumann
Schumann
Country
Ricnawy Gwin
Journal-War
P Puan
Lawrence
Graves names task force to study higher education
Gov. Bill Graves has appointed a 19 member Governor's Task Force on Higher Education Structure for Excellence to study university and college governance. The panel includes Rep. David Adkins and four lawmakers as it weighs consolidation and duplication concerns across state universities community colleges and vocational schools.
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Torexa
Bill Graves
Graves
David Adkins
R-Leawood
House
Council On Higher Education
Board of Regents
State Board of Education
Bicknell
Jim Slattery
Adkins
Senate
Tim Emert
Rindependence
Christine Downey
Newton
Jack Wempe
Little River
Higher Ed Task Force Debates Costly Restructuring Plan
The task force, chaired by Lt Gov Gary Sherrer and Gene Bicknell, includes Rep David Adkins and Sen Christine Downey among members. A proposed constitutional amendment and bill would cost nearly 140 million over four years, fueling doubts about necessity and total spend as Graves expresses skepticism. despite this, he praises the House committee and hopes for consensus.
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Pittsburg
Gary Sherrer
Commerce and Housing
David Adkins
Rleawood
House Committee On Higher Education
Thomas Burke
Kansas City Community College
Daniel Carey
Atchison
Benedictine College
Christine Downey
D-Newton
R.A. Edwards
Hutchinson
First National Bank
Senate
Tim Emert
R-Independence
Jerry Farley
Topeka
Washburn University
Boril Jean Hampton
Graves
Secretary of Commerce and Housing
Bicknell
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