Kansas school aid delayed again
Kansas delayed 92 million dollars in aid payments to public schools for a third straight month amid cash flow strain. Officials withheld half of Tuesday’s general state aid to 289 districts and warned the timing of the remaining half remains uncertain. Credit rating agencies Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s flagged the delays, urging fiscal tightening while state officials defend the necessity to meet payroll, Medicaid, and bond obligations. February tax collections missed forecasts by 11.5 million, widening the budget gap.
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Kansas
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Dennis
Sam Brownback
Jones-Sontag
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services
Moody’s Investors Service
Standard & Poor’s
Moody’s
Ted Hampton
Department of Revenue
Eisenhower school closure meeting signals budget strain
Ottawa residents expressed concern over Eisenhower Elementary closure plans. Board members discussed moving the Board of Education office and Special Education Office to Eisenhower, with relocation costs estimated at 10 000 and 29 000 if asbestos ceilings must be removed.
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Ottawaherald
Eisenhower
Joni Scribner
Ottawa
S. Ash St
Scribner
Garfield
Ottawa district weighs school closing amid budget talk
Ottawa School Superintendent Dean Katt outlined budget details and stressed the board does not intend to relocate or close Eisenhower. Board members Brando Jones and Kane voiced concern over closing schools, while Reed urged ideas to keep a school open as March 9 votes approach.
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Ottawa
Dean Katt
Ottawaherald
Eisenhower-ga
Katt
Eisenhower
Brandon Jones
Jones
Kane
Reed
Cattle Truck Crash Kills Dozen Cows Near Globe Kansas
A cattle truck rolled on U S 56 south of Lawrence near Globe early Tuesday killing about twelve cows from a load of fifty headed from Kentucky to Kansas. The driver was uninjured and the highway reopened by the afternoon.
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U.S. 56
Lawrence
Globe
Douglas County Sheriff's
Steve Lewis
Kentucky
Public TV pulls out of birthday concert
Smoky Hills Public Television cancels televising a March 13 Home on the Range concert in Hutchinson Kansas as proposed budget cuts of 1.7 million to public television and radio threaten production. Organizers say the show will still be recorded for public radio. Governor Sam Brownback had proposed the cuts last month.
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Hutchinson
Kansas
Kansans
Smoky Hills Public Television
Martha Slater Farrell
Sam Brownback
Hutchinson News
Smoky Hills
Lynn Meredith
Bank seeks receiver for Kansas megachurch over payroll
Regions Bank asks a Johnson County District Court to appoint a receiver to take over First Family Church in Overland Park and its books as the church faces foreclosure. The bank alleges pastor pay and family member salaries total 915000 while loans remain unpaid. The church cites lower official figures and warns a receiver would be devastating.
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Clathe
Northeast Kansas
Regions Bank
Johnson County
First Family Church
Kansas City Star
Jerry Johnston
Johnston
Overland Park Church
EPA pressure mounts over Kansas coal plant permit
Environmentalists urged EPA regional administrator Karl Brooks to object to a December air quality permit issued to Sunflower Electric Power Corp. for a coal plant near Holcomb Finney County Kansas. Earthjustice on behalf of Sierra Club urged EPA to order state officials to revise the permit or block construction.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Kansas
Earthjustice
Karl Brooks
EPA
Sunflower Electric Power Corp
Sunflower
Hays
Holcomb
Finney County
Sierra Club
Brooks
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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