Ruling tests openness of Kansas railroad crossing data
Garden City Telegram losses access to Kansas railroad crossing safety rankings under one open records exception. Shawnee County judge Charles Andrews Jr rules the data may be kept secret as KDOT fights to seal the records, sparking debate over broadness of the states 44 exceptions to the Open Records Act.
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Kansas Department of Transportation
Garden City Telegram
Shawnee County
Charles Andrews Jr
Telegram
KDOT
Kansas
Andrews
John D. Montgomery
Kansas senator fights to tame banks and protect consumers
Kansas Senator Don Steffes, a former bank president, leads a push to replace the state bank commissioner with a non banker. He argues regulators should balance public interest against bank power, citing past tax loopholes and industry ties to NationsBank.
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Lord Punts-on-Thames
Gary Trudeau
Lord Punts
Viscount
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher
Punts
Lord Zonker
Zonker
Don Steffes
Kansas
McPherson
Steffes
Don Quixote
Fox
W. Newton Male
Prairie State Bank of
Augusta
NationsBank
Nations Bank
State of
George B. Pyle
P.O. Box
Salina
Clinton plan offers tax credit to aid long term care
The plan proposes a $1,000 yearly tax credit for elderly individuals needing nursing home or at home care, aiding informal caregivers. It aims to reduce Medicaid asset shelters by highlighting earlier taxpayer support, marking a shift in long term care policy amid aging populations and health care reform efforts.
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N.Y
Democrat and Chronicle
Clinton
Palm Beach
Fla
Jamaica
America
A. C
U.S
Jody- Anne Maxwell
East Germany
Scripps-Howard
Journey to impeachment vote crossed Kansas and a slave
Edmund Ross began as a Milwaukee typesetter who joined a mob to free fugitive Joshua Glover in 1854 amid the Kansas Nebraska Act fights. His later decisive vote against convicting President Andrew Johnson shaped impeachment history and he remained a prominent political figure through the 1890s.
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United States Senate
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Senate
House
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Courage
Johnson
Congress
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Nebraska
Plains
James H. Lane
Kan
Washington
White House
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