Kansas lawmakers weigh obesity as budget and health issue
Kansas legislators examine obesity as a public health and fiscal problem, citing 20 percent of Kansans obese and 60 percent overweight. Senators Haley and Barnett push awareness, school programs, and coordinated efforts with Sunflower Foundation grants guiding a multiyear plan.
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Bill Draper
Associated Press
Rite
Topeka
Kansas
Sen
David Haley
Kansas City
Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee
Haley
National Governors Association
Chicago
Internal Revenue Service
World Health Organization
WHO
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
RTI International
Sunflower Foundation
Billie Hall
Public Health and Welfare Committee
Hall
Jim Barnett
Barnett
R-Emporia
Westar Executives Restricted From Traveling Outside Home States
U S District Judge Julie Robinson limited Westar Energy former CEO David Wittig and ex executive Douglas Lake to stay within their home states while awaiting trial on 40 federal charges. Wittig in Kansas. Lake in Connecticut must travel only for attorney meetings, surrender passports, and report to authorities. The order follows a company jet use probe noting personal trips and falsified flight logs and keeps penalties while permitting necessary legal engagements.
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Topeka
Westar Energy
U.S
Julie Robinson
David Wittig
Westar
Douglas T. Lake
Wittig
Lake
Robinson
Kansas
U.S. Probation Office
West Palm Beach
Fla
Florida
Tle
Monument honoring space shuttle victims to rise at Cosmosphere
Kansas project by Bearden Stained Glass uses Challenger and Columbia shuttle tiles and Apollo 1 pad concrete in an 8 by 11 foot stained glass memorial. The panel shows an astronaut with arms outstretched, American flag, wheat at feet, rockets and stars above. Titled Ad Astra per Aspera, it reflects Hutchinson museum’s space artifacts collection.
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Wichita
Challenger
Columbia
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
Hutchinson
Bayer
Bearden Stained Glass
Kansas
Jeff Ollenburger
The
Cosmosphere
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