Hayden seeks key issue for Kansas 1990 session
The 1990 Kansas Legislature opens with Gov. Mike Hayden aiming to push competent financial management, prop erty tax relief, and death penalty approval. Hayden seeks a positive, nonpartisan session despite election year pressure while Democratic leaders push to elect a new governor. Continued on page 9.
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Kansas
Associated Press
Topeka
Kan
John Carlin
Sam Hardage
Mike Hayden
Hayden
Yost Unveils Plan for Kansas Property Tax Overhaul
Senator Eric Yost proposes a constitutional amendment to cap mill levies at 100 mills and set assessed values at 10 percent residential and 15 percent commercial. The plan would freeze rates for units under 100 mills and roll back higher millages, creating a 1 percent residential and 1.5 percent commercial tax rate, with Legislature control over distribution.
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Topeka
Kan
Eric Yost
Wichita
Yost
Statehouse
Kansas
Ottawa juniors to take ACT on February 10
Ottawa High School juniors and seniors will sit for the ACT on February 10. Officials weigh ACT scores among university admission factors, while district testing includes norm referenced and criteria referenced assessments. The SRA remains a common norm referenced test for grades 1-8 each spring, with sophomores taking it in the fall.
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Nancy Hale
Ottawa
Hale
Interpreting norm and criteria referenced tests in Ottawa
Ottawa educators compare norm referenced tests with criteria based measures like the Kansas Minimum Competency test. Tests aid individual student insight and curriculum evaluation, not single score driven placement.
Noriega Loyalists Still At Large In Panama City
U S invasion commander Lt Gen Carl Stiner said about 200 hard core Noriega backers remain at large and capable of disruption. Gen Colin Powell accompanied him as Panama's new civilian government purged Defense Forces chiefs and reorganized forces. Powell noted troop levels would return near pre invasion size of 12 000 over weeks. Some Dignity Battalion commanders were captured. others surrendered to locals.
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Panama City
Panama
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Carl Stiner
Howard Air Force Base
Colin Powell
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Noriega
United States
Critica Libre
el Panama
America
U.S
Chamber of Commerce
Guillermo Endara
Florida
Powell
Stiner
Dignity
Gray mail looms as Noriega case fights CIA files
Prosecutors warn Noriega trial could expose embarrassing ties to U.S. intelligence. A former U.S. attorney says CIA materials were inaccessible, leaving questions about whether Noriega acted as an agent for narcotics interests. Defense seeks CIA files to uncover truth amid disputed evidence of agency relationship.
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Miami
Manuel Noriega
Noriega
Colombia
Medellin
Gregorio
Steven Kollin
CIA
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