Brownback urges state fair to fund improvements
Gov. Sam Brownback met with the Kansas State Fair Board in Hutchinson urging it to self finance any needed improvements. The fee funded agency faces rising costs and proposals include upgrading the Expo Center and Bison Arena, possibly removing the racetrack and resizing the grandstand to reduce funding needs.
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Stormont Vail to Close Alma and Lyndon Health Clinics
Stormont Vail Health will close the Cotton O Neil Lyndon clinic December 31 and the Cotton O Neil Alma clinic January 31 2017. The closures follow 4 percent Medicaid cuts totaling $3 million and Kansas not expanding Medicaid. Mayor Chris Cole cites loss of local access and transportation issues for residents. Burkhardt notes 1900 Lyndon patients and 800 Alma patients affected.
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Holland Takes Aim At Brownback Policies In Ad
The piece notes a trend of firearms in political ads, citing a 2010 West Virginia Senate race where a candidate shot a climate bill, and describing Missouri gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens firing a machine gun on camera to press gun rights and oppose environmental regulation.
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Holland Fights Back With “Big Guns” Against Obamacare
A political column from Holland argues that resistance to Obamacare is strongest when opponents push back decisively, claiming the speaker uses strong, even dramatic, rhetoric to rally supporters and expose perceived flaws in the healthcare law.
Huelskamp presses impeachment push after primary loss
Kansas congressman Tim Huelskamp resumes his push in Washington to impeach Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen. He joins others who accuse Koskinen of hindering probes into IRS scrutiny of tea party groups seeking tax exemptions. A compromise yields Koskinen testimony next week as impeachment votes are postponed.
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