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Dodge City Daily Globe
19 Feb, 2019
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Kansas property owners lash out at wind farms in support of proposed restrictions
Amy Brown held her two young sons to her side Tuesday as she fought back tears and lashed out at the company that plans to surround her home south of of Hutchinson with massive wind turbines.
Capitol Insider podcast: Lt. Gov. Lynn Rogers leads rural prosperity efforts

The heart of Lt. Gov. Lynn Rogers' rural development initiative is the search for a basket of remedies to quality of life challenges eroding communities outside the state's urban centers.

Former employees struggle following hospital closure

OSWEGO - Area residents were surprised to hear last week that Oswego Community Hospital, Oswego Community Clinic, Chetopa Community Clinic had abruptly closed their doors.

Kansas House bill compels disclosure, auditing of state economic incentives

A Kansas House committee approved legislation requiring the state agency responsible for awarding economic development incentives to businesses to document tax breaks on a website available to the public.

Kansas National Guard requests confidentiality shield for counselors

Army National Guard Lt. Col. Dana Graf said state legislators Tuesday had an opportunity to ease the accumulating mental health burden on dozens of counselors assisting Kansas soldiers and airmen.

Kansas bill repealing death penalty evokes moral, religious, justice arguments

Sister Therese Bangert's career as a volunteer police and fire chaplain in Kansas City, Kan., took her into the heart of darkness.

Rep. Cheryl Helmer proposes plan to require Kansas schools to refund teachers for school supplies

Rep. Cheryl Helmer told fellow Education Committee members Monday that public schools should be required to provide $500 to every teacher to offset expenses for classroom supplies.

Kansas legislators spark tidal wave of 300 bills ahead of filing deadline

Kansas House and Senate members' assembly-line approach to legislating resulted in the introduction of more than 300 bills in a four-day period before a deadline clock quelled the avalanche.

Lewis’ successor to be chosen in March

PRATT -- Republicans in Pratt County will host the special convention in March to select a replacement in the Kansas House of Representatives' 113th District, where state Rep. Greg Lewis, R-St. John, is fighting a cancerous brain tumor and announced he will resign effective Friday.

Agent Kay is on a mission to answer Kansas tax questions

Visitors to the Kansas online tax website can now interact with Agent Kay, a form of artificial intelligence that can answer common questions about Kansas taxes.

Kansas House bill compels disclosure, auditing of state economic incentives

A Kansas House committee approved legislation requiring the state agency responsible for awarding economic development incentives to businesses to document tax breaks on a website available to the public.

Visual map provides solar insight

A display showing spikes and peaks of solar energy use in Pratt is available to the public in Pratt City Hall.

Steve Rose trades barbs with Sen. Jim Denning’s attorney over defamation lawsuit

Kansas City Star opinion editor Colleen Nelson told Steve Rose she was troubled by the column the newspaper had just published.

GOP unity in Kansas: Retiring U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts grasps elephant in the room

Retiring U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts hoisted a visual aid Saturday to emphasize the value of unifying Republicans in Kansas elections and in development of public policy in Washington, D.C.

Sales tax, state prisons topics at coffee

Five southwest Kansas legislators shared their views on local issues and state prisons, among other topics, at Saturday's Legislative Coffee at St. Catherine Hospital.

Gov. Laura Kelly to rework foster care grants awarded by GOP predecessor

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly revealed the decision Thursday to renegotiate foster care grants and terminate family preservation wards awarded by the state during the administration of Gov. Jeff Colyer.

Kansas congressional delegation struggles with Trump’s emergency order

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran's mild grimace while responding to a question Saturday about President Donald Trump's emergency order betrayed unease with implications of executive action to redirect hundreds of millions of dollars to construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Kansas legislation aims to ease logistics of extracting electronic evidence

Law enforcement officers, county prosecutors and district attorneys are making the case for amendment of Kansas law to allow electronically stored information seized with a warrant to be easily transferred outside the state for examination by experts.

Dodge City teen to U.S. House panel: Lack of voting access undermines democracy

A Dodge City high school student who carried a torch amid voting access uproar last fall says election officials undermine democracy and warrant proposed federal guidance.

Kansas House rejects KPERS plan as Democrats complain of broken rules

House Republicans delivered a blow Thursday to Gov. Laura Kelly's plan to refinance the state pension system, voting it down over objections by Democrats who accused their rivals of playing political games.

‘Vile, hateful and disrespectful’: LGBTQ lobbyists blast attempt to undermine legitimacy of Kansas same-sex marriages

Seven Republicans in the Kansas House are sponsoring a bill declaring same-sex marriage a "parody" of the established order and describing any form of marriage outside the union of a man and woman the equivalent of engaging in bestiality or the wedding of a person and an inanimate object.

Kansas Hope Scholarship Act would transfer base aid to private schools for bullying victims

Former Rep. Chuck Weber explained the hopelessness bullying victims experience in testimony last week for lawmakers entertaining ideas to restructure the way public school funding is used.

‘Everyone’s in a hurry’: KDOT crews have hands full with potholes

Dale Musick stood between two gigantic Kansas Department of Transportation trucks parked blocking traffic in the right-hand lane of eastbound Interstate 70 in west Topeka.

Franklin County’s difficulty caring for 55 neglected horses leads to Kansas reform bill

Sheriff Jeff Richards believes Franklin County's seizure last year of 55 horses suffering from inadequate food and water was the right decision. "They were in bad shape," the sheriff said. Richards asked the Kansas House's judiciary committee to amend state law to deal with legal and financial issues encountered after seizing the horse herd.

Kansas may offer jobless benefits to government workers hit by shutdowns

A House committee explored Monday a bill allowing federal and state government employees required to work without pay during a furlough to draw upon Kansas unemployment insurance benefits.

Kansas cities, counties eager to spike bill on recording of public meetings

More than 20 city and county officials expressed deep opposition Monday to a proposal requiring all government entities subject to the Kansas Open Meetings Act to make public audio recordings of meetings within 24 hours.