State budget hailed as generous despite regrets
The 1998 Kansas budget plans tax cuts funded by a stable economy with $119 million in savings and a 3.5 percent state employee raise. It also allocates more for education and prison expansion while lawmakers anticipate tighter finances in 1999. Governor Graves faces the omnibus appropriations act decisions with caution.
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Topeka
Bill Graves
Pat Ranson
Richita
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Graves
KU dean to join law school faculty in Green Hall
Kansas University's journalism dean Mike Kautsch will join the law school faculty in Green Hall to help start an academic program on public policy law and communications. He will leave the journalism school June 30 and begin a six month legal research project before joining July 1 under new leadership.
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Mike Kautsch
Kansas University
Stauffer-Flint
Law School
Green Hall
Lawrence
Kautsch
David Shulenburger
Journalism
James Gentry
University
Uncertainty Over Home Health Care Access in Kansas
Kansas officials worry a federal budget plan to shift payments in Medicare could place home health services under elective coverage. If approved, elderly patients may pay 20 percent or more, risking reduced access as nonprofit VNAs face funding gaps and for profit agencies pursue upfront payments.
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Toreka
Clinton
Patti Young
Garnett
U.S. House of Representatives
Senate
U.S. House
Pat Roberts
Tion
Sam Brownback
Home Care Association of America
Congress
Young
Lawrence
Lee Hough
Hough
VNA
Educator to spend day with president in West Virginia
Centennial School principal Myron Melton will join about 150 attendees at a Clinton town hall meeting at Robert C. Byrd High School in Clarksburg WV focusing on national education standards. The event lasts about 1 1/2 hours starting 11 45 a.m. CDT with questions from the audience and potential live coverage on local stations and the web.
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Lawrence
Clinton
Myron Melton
Centennial School
Robert C. Byrd High School
Clarksburg
W.va
Julie Green
White House
Green
U.S
Richard Riley
West Virginia
Melton
Centennial
C-Span
CNN
Ottawa to ban barrel burning in city limits
Ottawa city commissioners approved a barrel burning ban set to take effect August 1, making it a Class C misdemeanor with fines up to 500 dollars and up to 30 days in jail. The ordinance allows yard waste burning only under a Fire Department permit to reduce pollution and fire hazards.
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Ottawa
Vicki Cummiskey
Cummiskey
Matt Matthews
Gene Ramsey
Charles Ratliff
Ratliff
Matthews
Ottawa Fire Department
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Terry Stevens
Al-World Graphic
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Dept. of Education
Dept. of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Dept. of Transportation
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
Dept. of Human Resources
Kansas Dept. of Health
Kan
Legislative Research Department
Home Health Services
Mike Yoder
Olive Athey
Orchard Lane
Baldwin
Angelina Sterrett
Lisa
Mark Melton
Washington, D.C
Cotf.edu
Town Hall
Ottawa Commission
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