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Education funding in limbo as session winds down

Larry Kleeman — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:05:51 +0000

TOPEKA | As the Kansas Legislature slowly moves through what could be its final day, the fate of education funding is still in doubt.

The Senate and the House disagree with how much money to put into schools. The Senate wants $77 million. The House wants to put in $50 million.

The Senate wants to take the money from general taxes. The House wants to take it from the state highway fund.

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Crawford County technical school in the works

Larry Kleeman — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:25:53 +0000

County and city officials have been working with leaders in education to create a new technical school in the county.

Brownback is ready to sign income tax cut plan

Larry Kleeman — Sat, 19 May 2012 12:50:32 +0000

TOPEKA — Income tax cuts, school funding and the state budget all hang in limbo today as lawmakers spin out new deals aimed at locking in conservative or moderate Republican ideals and bringing the grueling legislative session to an end.

Gov. Sam Brownback wields one of the most powerful bargaining chips – a sweeping income tax cut plan that some conservatives see as the zenith of tax relief and economic growth, but that moderates and Democrats say could devastate schools and state services Kansans rely on.

After the Senate and its moderate Republican leaders bounced a milder tax-cut plan back to a committee Friday as the legislative clock ran down, Brownback reaffirmed that he will sign the big tax-cut bill and find ways to cut the budget and rein in spending to afford it.

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Ice age monument to be dedicated today in Blue Rapids, Kan.

Larry Kleeman — Sat, 19 May 2012 12:35:57 +0000

Long before there were humans to see it, a sheet of ice plowed into northeast Kansas, so heavy that it pushed down the ground, so powerful that it dragged thousands of pink boulders from Minnesota, dumping them as it melted.

The residents of Blue Rapids, a small town located on Kansas Highway 9 in Marshall County, have decided this significant but largely unreported historical event deserves a monument. They plan to dedicate it today, in the town square, what may be one of the world’s only monuments to the ice ages of the world’s past. “We’re now world headquarters for monuments to the ice age,” joked Phil Osborne, a Blue Rapids resident.

During one of the last advances of the world’s past ice ages, according to the Kansas Geological Survey, giant glaciers changed the courses of our biggest rivers – and left thousands of heavy Sioux quartzite boulders and smaller stones behind when it all melted. That glacial period took place 400,000 to 500,000 years ago, said Rex Buchanan, interim director of the geological survey. Some geologists date the period further back, to about 600,000 years ago.

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Lindsborg City Band to perform patriotic concert

Larry Kleeman — Sat, 19 May 2012 12:35:53 +0000

Lindsborg City Band to perform patriotic concert

LINDSBORG — The Lindsborg City Band will open its summer concert series with a patriotic concert beginning at 8 p.m. Friday at the Swensson Park Memorial Bandshell.

The band will perform the John …

Google’s schedule for Kansas City Internet slips again

Larry Kleeman — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:38:58 +0000

More than a year ago, the world’s largest Web company said that it was blessing Kansas City with an ultra-fast Internet service and that it would deploy the hookups at “Google speed.”

Zabra Mussels Cleared from Council Grove City Lake

Larry Kleeman — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:50:47 +0000

In a press release sent today, City Administrator Danny Matthews stated all zebra mussels have been removed from the raw water intake tower at the Council Grove City Lake.

Taxes, budget & redistricting tie legislature in knots

Larry Kleeman — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:50:55 +0000

A week after the scheduled end of the legislative session, and there’s still no budget or redistricting agreement.

Hays resident recognized for efforts to promote local tourism

Larry Kleeman — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:21:01 +0000

By DAWNE LEIKER

dleiker@dailynews.net

The Kansas Sampler Foundation recognized a Hays resident’s efforts to preserve and sustain rural tourism at the Kansas Sampler Festival in Liberal early this month.

Ruben Schuckman, city of Hays tourism mar …

Renewing a motor vehicle license in Johnson or Wyandotte county? Do it now

Larry Kleeman — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:20:59 +0000

Don’t delay if you need to renew your motor vehicle licenses this month in Wyandotte and Johnson counties.