Rural Kansans Face Polling Closures From New Election Law
Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh told a Senate committee that the Help America Vote Act will push polling places to be accessible with secret ballots and disability assistive tech by 2006. Costly touchscreen machines may shrink polling sites from about 2,400 to 2,100 or fewer, harming rural voters despite improved access for disabled residents. Thornburgh and Gov. Sebelius dispute provisions on voter ID, and without state action Kansas could lose roughly $25 million in federal funding.
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Topeka
Ron Thornburgh
Senate Elections and Local Government Committee
Congress
Kansas
Thornburgh
Stan Clark
R Oakley
Elections Committee
Clark
Derek Schmidt
Independence
Tallgrass Prairie to Return to Kansas Control
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius announced that a National Park Trust transfer will return the 11 000 acre Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Chase County to a new Kansas Park Foundation. The foundation will retire the debt and involve private sector partners including Westar. The plan preserves public access and links to Menninger Memorial Park and future trails near Cedar Crest in Topeka.
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Topeka
Kathleen Sebelius
National Park Trust
Tallgrass Prairie
Kansas
Kansas Park Foundation
State Wildlife and Parks Commission
U.S
Nancy Kassebaum-Baker
Chase County
Flint Hills
Sebelius
Amazon Jungle
Westar
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Menninger
Cedar Crest
Kansas History Museum
Guest speaker promotes harmony of faith and science at Ottawa
Holmes Rolston III, philosophy professor at Colorado State University, told Ottawa University Thursday night that religion and biology can coexist. He discussed his book Genes Genesis and God and described evolution as possible with divine input, in the Presidential Lecture Series Faith Learning and Life.
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Ottawa University
Bud McCluney
Holmes Rolston III
Rolston
God
Colorado State University
Ottawa school board weighs Pepsi vending deal amid sugar concerns
Ottawa High School faces a 7 year exclusive Pepsi contract that could bring the district over 60000 in provisions. Health worries grow as Kansas reports obesity at one in five adults and rising youth activity gaps. Lawmakers discuss restricting in school vending while seeking revenue to fund tight budgets.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Senate Insurance Committee
Ruth Teichman
R-Stafford
Pepsi
Ottawa High School
Jeanette Lowry
Mallory Geist
OHS
Geist
Bush shifts stance on UN role in Iraq relief
Washington reports indicate the Bush administration has shifted from sidelining the United Nations in Iraq to seeking UN help to resolve a dangerous political stalemate. Analysts note the move signals concern that conditions in Iraq are deteriorating and UN involvement may now be viewed as essential.
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Washington
Bush
United Nations
Iraq
United States
Christopher Preble
Libertarian Cato Institute
U.N
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