Severance tax bill faces hostile Senate in Kansas
In Topeka the House severance tax plan taxing oil and gas at 3 percent and natural gas liquids at 2 percent moves to a wary Kansas Senate. Senate leadership likely will refer it to two committees, complicating passage as Speaker Wendell Lady defends the measure for education and highways funding.
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Topeka
Kan
House
Kansas Senate
Wendell Lady
Senate
Ross Coyen
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Doyen
Dayen
Legislative Coffee to review Kansas Legislature updates
State Senator Jim Allen and Representative Dorothy Nichols will discuss the last two weeks of Kansas Legislature activity at a 10 a.m. Legislative Coffee in the Peoples National Bank lobby. Topics include severance tax progress, school financing, and the pari mutuel wagering bill killed in the Senate. Coffee and doughnuts provided by the Chamber of Commerce Governmental Affairs Committee.
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Kansas Corporation Commission
Jim Allen
Dorothy Nichols
Ottawa
Peoples National Bank
Kansas
Senate
Chamber of Commerce
OHS Students Plan March 20 Latex Paint Art Walk
Lori Mallory, an OHS junior and art association member, says students will use latex paint in a weather permitting project on Saturday March 20. They mark a plotting grid of 16 feet and involve over 100 students with spray cans. After the public viewing at 3 p.m., the project will be allowed to grow and then mowed off.
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Lori Mallory
OHS
Art Association
Ottawa Brothers Near Peak in High School Arts
Ottawa high school arts and athletics cross paths as local brothers push toward top regional honors while OHS cagers prepare for a challenging substate basketball tournament this week.
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Ottawa Brothers
OHS
County Petition Drives Rise From Appraiser Budget Issue
Franklin County commissioners entertain petition drives to halt exempting the appraiser budget from the aggregate tax levy. Taxpayer David Pemberton questions effects, potential election costs, and possible shifts of funding if the measure passes or fails. Paine and Swank discuss Main Street revitalization timing and downtown business impacts amid city corridor plans.
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Bob Burtch
Franklin County
David Pemberton
Ottawa Rfd 2
Charles Clark
Roger Keith
Pemberton
Keith
State Board of Tax Appeals
Carmen Peffly
Peffly
General Fund
U.S.C
L.B. Paine
Paine
Ottawa
Commission
County Commission
Roy Swank
Swank
Main Street
Dave Watkins
Icy US 75 pileup injures five near Burlington
Five people were injured in a 21 vehicle pileup on an icy bridge over the Neosho River north of Burlington. The Coffey County sheriff said injuries were not serious and the five victims were listed in poor condition.
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Burlington
Kan
Neosho River
Coffey County
U.S. 75
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