House advances compromise on deer bill in Kansas
In Topeka the Kansas House moved a compromise deer bill toward final approval to curb crop damage and vehicle crashes. It would allow more out of state hunting permits, enable landowners to sell permits to non residents, and create a hot line for crop damage reports. The bill seeks to balance population control with landowner interests while doctors debate the best approach.
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Department of Wildlife and Parks
Kansas
Department
Department of Transportation
Asid
Joann Freeborn
Cordia
House Environment Committee
Wildlife Agency
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Steve Williams
House Committee
Williams
Senate debates bill to fund golf tournament in Kansas
Kansas Senate debated a bill allowing local governments to access economic development funds to stage national events including a Prestigious golf tournament at Prairie Dunes Country Club Hutchinson. An amendment would make national events a loan eligibility trigger while other events like a 2004 bowling tournament could qualify.
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Kansas
Kansas Economic Opportunity Initiatives Fund
United States
Dave Kerr
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Prairie Dunes Country Club
Hutchinson
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Marge Petty
Women’s International Bowling Congress
Wichita
KPERS chief to retire after nine years in post
Meredith Williams, executive secretary of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System, will resign in June after nine years. He will join Colorado's Public Employees' Retirement Association as executive secretary. Williams previously served as legislative post auditor. Senate leader Hensley praised him but questioned pension-fund diversion proposals as a possible reason for departure.
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Meredith Williams
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
Williams
Public Employees’ Retirement Association of Colorado
Colorado
KPERS
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Legislative Post
Legislative Division of
Post Audit
Senate
Anthony Hensley
Hensley
Bill Graves
Erin Brockovich film tale rooted in Lawrence native
Lawrence native Erin Brockovich, misidentified as Miss Wichita in the film, rose from Lawrence High School to fame after uncovering a California water pollution case. The real story traces her early life, education, and the $333 million Pacific Gas & Electric settlement that inspired the movie starring Julia Roberts.
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Erin Brockovich
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Frank
B.J. Pattee
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California
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Erin
Roberts
Wilkins
Ernie
Wichita
Pacific Coast
Brockovich
Kansas State University
Lawrence Journal-World
Kanena State
Dallas
Reno
Nev
Los Angeles
Pacific Gas & Electric
Eric Ellis
Pattees
Frank Pattee
Extinct Carolina Parakeet inspires Kansas poet’s book
Kansas poet Chris Cokinos highlights vanished birds in Hope Is the Thing With Feathers. He recalls the Carolina Parakeet seen near Atchison and notes its extinction in 1918 at Cincinnati Zoo. The work surveys six extinct species and urges conservation of what remains.
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University of Kansas Natural History Museum
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Kansas
Townsend Peterson
University
Carolina
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Mississippi River
Kansas River
American Ornithologists Union
Elizabeth Dodd
Turtle Creek Lake
Manhattan
Dodd
Kansas State University
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