White Weddings Highlighted in Library Line Feature
The Library Line column suggests shifting focus from white Christmases to white weddings. Weather outlook shows brisk, cloudy tonight with a 50 percent shower risk after midnight and cooler, windy conditions Sunday with a 40 percent chance of rain or snow.
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Library Line
Bush pushes Medicare bill amid high stakes vote
President Bush used Air Force One to press reluctant House Republicans to back sweeping Medicare prescription drug legislation as Democrats oppose what they call a threat to the health program for seniors. GOP vote counters aimed for a late-night vote after help from HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson. The plan would create discount drug cards next year and, by 2006, offer a Medicare drug benefit, while encouraging new private managed care plans for seniors.
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Washington
Bush
Air Force One
House
England
GOP
HHS
Tommy Thompson
Capitol
Tom Feeney
R-Fla
Marsha Blackburn
Tennessee
Trent Franks
Arizona
Franklin County eyes 34 mile paving boom with state loan
County Public Works Director Ray DeJulio outlines a plan to resurface and widen 34 miles of Franklin County roads beginning in 2004 if a new 3 percent state loan of 6 million dollars is approved. The project aims to raise lanes to 24 feet and apply double chip-seal surfaces.
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Franklin County
Ray DeJulio
Don Waymire
Waymire
DeJulio
Centropolis
Colorado Road
John Brown
Williamsburg
Kentucky Road
Homewood
Cloud Road
U.S. 59
Lane
Vermont Road
Miami County
Rantoul
Rural towns keep jobs efforts simple
In Yates Center and surrounding Quad County area, communities pursue homegrown business startups to sustain rural economies. Since 1995 Quad County Enterprise, funded by state grants and Sirolli Institute support, has created 56 jobs and 17 businesses with $945,000 in sales and $658,000 in invested capital, plus ventures like Washboard and More offering laundry and collectibles.
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Associated Press
Yates Center
Jack Newcomb
Quad County
Chautauqua
Elk
Greenwood
Woodson
Western
Western Kansas Consortium of Sherman, Greeley, Wichita, Scott, Lane and Kearny
Sunflower
Harper, Barber, Kiowa
Pratt
Prairie Enterprise
Barton, Edwards, Ellsworth
Rice and Russell
Northeast Kansas
Newcomb
Sirolli Institute of
Federal Resolution Trust Corp
Sedan
Eureka
Moline
Washboard
Marla Newman
Town Square
KPERS places two investment firms on probation over ethics issues
KPERS trustees voted to monitor Alliance Capital and Morgan Stanley amid federal and state probes into mutual fund trading. Alliance manages 750 million for KPERS. Morgan Stanley faces a 50 million SEC settlement for failing to disclose customer fund share information. No funds were pulled from either firm yet.
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Topeka
State Employee Retirement Fund
Alliance Capital
Morgan Stanley
Kansas Public Employee Retirement System
Rob Woodard
KPERS
Michael Braude
Kansas City Board of Trade
Morgan
Alliance
John Carifa
Mutual Fund
Michael Laughlin
Stephen Reinhacker
Reinhacker
Alliance Capitals
Securities and Exchange Commission
Allan Woodard
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Salvation Army
Wal-Mart
Ottawa
Thomas
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Sand Creek
Marshall
iRock
Sheila Holle
The
Ottawa Herald
Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson and
Nemaha Counties