Stovall Lends Hand in Restoration of Her Office
Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall renovated her Capitol area office in a 19th century Memorial Building by sewing burlap burgundy and navy window swags herself. Her staff moved in as she praised thrift but staff noted the craft.
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Stovall
Kansas
Carla Stovall
Memorial
Capitol
Tiffany Ball
U.S
Dennis Moore
Gary Sherrer
Alvena Spangenburg
Great Bend
Lea Keller
St. Francis
Keller
House
Dennis McKinney
D-Greensburg
Kansas State University
Rhonda Janke
K-State
House Utilities Committee
Capitol Notebook reflects clashes over radio towers and drug program audits
In Capitol Notebook a group including Rep Jim Morrison urges cities and counties to reasonably accommodate amateur radio towers but the bill dies. Sen Rich Becker and Rep Shari Weber push SCR 1632 to assess whether 18 million yearly drug and alcohol programs are effective, citing 70 percent parolee recidivism tied to substance abuse. A separate bill targets cockfighting, while Salina South Middle School's technology fair showcases a geology Web site from students led by Cyndy Knutson.
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Colby
Jim Morrison
R-Colby
Bruce Frahm
Ron Tremblay
Salina
Frahm
Sheila Frahm
Rich Becker
Renexa
Shari Weber
R-Herington
Becker
Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee
Senate
Kansas
Techno Rocks
Salina South Middle School
Cyndy Knutson
Steven Greene
Usd305
Stewart
Agencies seek final contracts for foster care reforms
SRS agencies in Wichita awaiting four year renegotiated contracts delay fuels rumors and staff disruption. The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services negotiates with nonprofits like United Methodist Youthville over payments and expectations for foster care, family preservation, and adoption services for abused and neglected children.
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Wichita
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Kansas
Jane Alleva
United Methodist Youthville
Judge rules Bluestein High violated student rights over art
U S District Judge Wesley Brown ruled Bluestein High School violated Sarah Boman's First Amendment rights by suspending her for artwork stating I'll kill you all on a school door. The judge made permanent an injunction allowing her to return. the case centers on whether the art was a threat or legitimate conceptual art and whether any disruption occurred. The school may appeal, and damages to be decided.
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Wichita
Bluestein
U.S
Wesley Brown
Sarah Boman
Brown
Bill Hays
Boman
American Civil Liberties Union
Kelly Johnson
Johnson
Hays
Sarah
Utes
Senate bill tightens hog farm regulation in Kansas
A Senate committee reviews SB 562 to expand required waste lagoon plans as hog farm closures loom. KDHE already requires large farms to file such plans for waste permits, while a parallel House bill HB 2987 imposes a one year moratorium on new waste lagoons in the Equus Beds to study lagoon effects.
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Topeka
Senate
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
House Taxation Committee
Kansas
Kansas State
KDHE
Susan Wagle
Richita
Clay Aurand
Aurand
R-Courtland
Department of Agriculture
John Garlinger
Garlinger
Ink.org
Confession reopens old Wichita killing memories
Wichita legislator Ruby Gilbert recalls her father Roosevelt Boston’s 1969 death after an inmate in Texas confessed to the unsolved murder. Robert Jimmy Young, convicted in a separate slaying, wrote to Dallas police and papers claiming responsibility and urging a test of his own guilt. The revelation comes as Gilbert, serving in Topeka, reflects on a case that haunted her family for decades.
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Wichita
Ruby Gilbert
Gilbert
D-Wichita
Dallas Morning News
al Gore
Sen
John McCain
New Dam
Raymond
Topeka
Booker
Ruby
Texas
Roosevelt Boston
Dallas
Boston
Wichita Eagle
State Capitol
Robert Jimmy Young
Wea Young
Young
Daddy
Drought fear grows as El Nino patterns spark dry spell risk
Hutchinson AP experts warn Great Plains and southern states could face drier crop seasons ahead. Two oceanic patterns show dry-leaning phases, with rainfall in March and April critical. El Niño conditions and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation influence potential drought, though officials note classification remains unchanged.
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Hutchinson
Great Plains
Mary Knapp
Weather Library
Kansas State University
Manhattan
United States
Nathan Mantua
University of Washington
Tropics
Higgins
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Omnes
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Ctizens State Bank OF Pomoma Pomon
Aaa
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Zaha Ang
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Baldwin City
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