Senators weigh role of community colleges and regents
Senate Confirmation Oversight Committee endorsed Gov. Graves appointments to two new regents Deryl Wynn and Lew Ferguson and reappointments of Chairman Clay Blair III and Regent Bill Docking. They discussed vocational technical schools merging with state universities and the need for closer collaboration with the Legislature. Blair cited a $125000 private study and Ferguson urged focus on vo tech workers.
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Tereka
State Board of Regents
Senate
Bill Graves
Deryl Wynn
Kansas City, Kan
Lew Ferguson
Topeka
Associated Press
Clay Blair HI
Olathe
Bill Docking
Arkansas City
Docking
Board of Regents
State Board of Education
Blair
Regents
Ferguson
Lana Oleen
Roberts backs TFCA debt relief for tropical forests
Kansas Senator Pat Roberts co sponsors the Tropical Forest Conservation Act with Senators Lugar and Biden, promoting debt relief deals in exchange for funding tropical forest conservation. Douglas County police ended the Clinton Lake carjacking probe, citing undisclosed information and removing the vehicle from NCIC. A 20 year old Lawrence man reported being forced into a Dodge Omni by an armed suspect at Clinton State Park, then dumped near Interstate 29.
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Kansas
U.S
Pat Roberts
Roberts
Richard Lugar
R-Ind
Joseph Biden
D-Del
TFCA
Douglas County
National Crime Information Center
Lawrence
Clinton State Park
Kansas City
Interstate 29
Group seeks Shawnee tribal status loses court bid
Denver residents tracing Shawnee ancestry but not members failed to gain tribal recognition and land in a dispute over a 1994 Bureau of Indian Affairs petition and a land claim tied to the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant. The 10th Circuit upheld a lower court dismissal of the suit.
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Denver
United Tribe of
de Sota
Kan
Jimmie D. Oyler
Oyter
Oyler
Bureau of Indian Affairs
U.S. Defense Department
Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant
10Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Summer Youth Theatre opens with Circus McGurkis at arts center
The Lawrence Arts Center hosts three youth shows this month. Circus McGurkis features kindergarten to third graders at 10 p.m. Saturday with no admission. Alice in Wonderland runs June 21 to 23 for grades 4–7 at 7:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. on June 23. Carnival, with grades 8–12, plays June 28–30 at 7:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. on June 30–July 1. Tickets vary by show: Circus free. Alice in Wonderland and Carnival priced at 4 for under 12 and seniors, 6 for others. Tickets for Circus sold at the door. Alice in Wonderland on sale now. Carnival tickets go on sale June 25 for the public.
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Circus McGurkis
Lawrence Arts Center
the Arts Center
The
Arts Center
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