Money squeeze faces Kansas legislators in 1990 session
Budget chief Richard Ryan told the Legislative Budget Committee that the 1991 budget faces tight choices. With July tax receipts $8 million below estimates, lawmakers may cut current spending by 3.4 percent or use a $39 million fund balance to grant a small spending increase. The Margin of Excellence program for the Board of Regents faces possible funding cuts as revenue projections weaken.
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Topeka
Kan
Richard Ryan
Ryan
Board of Regents
Alan Conroy
Research Department
Regents
Bill Bunten
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
Bud Burke
Leawood
Boom times for KDOT
The Kansas Department of Transportation gears up for a $2.65 billion highway plan with 131 new positions, increasing payroll by about $3.8 million. Topeka offices will expand into extra space, including a lease in the Thacher Building. A new Highway Program Office, headed by Mike Lackey, aims to ensure program continuity and manage the eight year plan.
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Mike Shields
Harris
Topeka
Kansas
Department of Transportation
Liz Zirger
KDOT
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Zirger
Mark Stock
City of
Docking State
Statehouse
Thacher
P.L. Thacher
Horace Edwards
Mike Lackey
Edwards
KCC Rejects Tele Kansas Billing Correction
The Kansas Corporation Commission declined to order Southwestern Bell to mail a corrective billing insert about Tele- Kansas changes. CURB argued the brochure misled customers, but the commission found no inherently false statements and debated requiring a second, staff-written insert.
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Topeka,kan
Kansas Corporation Commission
Southwestern Bell Co
Commission
Southwestern Bell
Tele- Kansas
KCC
Citizens Utility Ratepayers Board
CURB
Margalee Wright
Bell
Rich Kowalewski
Kansas
Polish Reds salvage PM post
Parliament elected Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak as prime minister, a Communist victory amid erosion of their power. Solidarity opposed the candidacy as price controls were lifted on staples and economic turmoil continued. the Communist coalition holds a large Sejm majority.
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Warsaw
Poland
Czeslaw Kiszczak
Communist Party
Kiszczak
Peasant Party
Solidarity
Free Trade Union Movement
Mieczyslaw Rakowski
Sejm
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Kiszczak Immedi
United Telephone expands Kansas service to 100 more communities
United Telephone announces expansion of its service territories to include over 100 additional Kansas communities. The company highlights local civic involvement, free Speakers Bureau programs for organizations, and Kansas construction expenditures totaling over $8 million last year as part of its commitment to improved telephone service.
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United Telephone
Kansas
United Telephone Company
United Telephone System
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