Wealthy tax definition sparks veto threat in Congress
Congress debates a bipartisan tax bill aimed at capital gains relief and homebuyer credits while proposing a wealth clause defining wealthy as income over 100000. President Bush threatens a veto if that provision remains. Senate support lags veto override prospects. Dole and Kassebaum oppose raising taxes on themselves.
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Engress
George Bush
Senate
House-Senate
Sens
Robert Dole
Nancy Kassebaum
U.S
Iola Register Juco Financing Plan Spurs Debate in Kansas
A Kansas plan to fund community colleges would raise state funding to 40 percent, add a 40 percent property tax from regional districts, and charge students 20 percent in fees. It would regionalize counties into college regions, shifting board control away from home counties and ending out of district tuition. The move aims to coordinate with regents universities and public schools to strengthen two year colleges.
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Iola Register
Kansas
State Board of Education
Community Colleges of
Regents Universities
Salina
Emporia Gazette
Board of Regents
Rick Harman
Regents
Emporia State
E-State
Teachers College
U.S
Jack Skillet
Skillet
Taskforce
Remembering George Brett and the aging fan in Kansas
A Kansas writer reflects on George Brett as a cornerstone of baseball memory from 1976 to 1980 and beyond. He recalls Brett’s 1976 batting title, the Royals’ playoff feats, and Brett’s rise to fame, while noting the creeping sense of aging as iconic eras pass.
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Kansas
George Brett
Brett
Hal McRae
Royals
Jerry Ford
Yankees
Chris Chambliss
Yanks
Chambliss
George
Mike Schmidt
Johnny Bench
Reggie Jackson
Yaz
Legislative embers hot for next Kansas session in Topeka
The Kansas Legislature faces a hotter 1993 session with unresolved tax disputes and major school finance questions. Estimates suggest next year’s budget may need 200 to 300 million more for education, driven by enrollment, inflation, and lost reserves. Potential tax hikes include a one cent sales tax or a 1.5 percent income tax increase, plus debates over exemptions and abatements. Local government reform, property appraisal fixes, and a reform plan due by February 28 are also on the docket as lawsuits over local tax rights loom and farm taxation shifts reemerge.
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Topeka
Kansas
Statehouse
Farm Bureau
Department of Revenue
Death toll rise from Gulf War's aftereffects on children
A Boston AP report notes a NEJM study showing about 46,900 more children under five died in the first seven months of 1990s than expected due to diarrheal outbreaks from war-damaged water and sewage. Researchers from Harvard, plus U.S., England, New Guinea, and Jordan teams, funded by UNICEF, stress independence from Iraq.
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Boston
New England Journal of Medicine
Alberto Ascherio
Harvard School of Public Health
United States
England
New Guinea
Jordan
United Nations Children’s Fund
Comiskey Park
Chicago
Shea Stadium
New York
Las Vegas
Grand Ballroom
Disney World
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