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Dodge City Daily Globe
26 Feb, 2019
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No paychecks: Horton hospital may close
Horton Community Hospital employees haven't been paid since Feb. 15, and at least one employee indicated the hospital will close Friday if employees aren't paid.
‘What are we doing here?’: Kansas Sen. David Haley questions purpose of protecting police from traffic violations

Sen. David Haley questioned Tuesday why legislation is needed to protect law enforcement officers from minor traffic infractions while fighting crime.

Seeking diversity: Kansas universities are losing international students

Washburn University President Jerry Farley spent less than two days in Nepal last year - more time in the air than on the ground - to recruit students from the south Asian country.

Rep. Sharice Davids votes to nullify emergency as Kansas Republicans back President Donald Trump

U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids joined Democratic colleagues Tuesday in denouncing the president's use of an emergency declaration to secure funding for a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Sen. Jim Denning says school plan will add $90 million, calls Gov. Laura Kelly’s approach ‘amateurish’

Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning said Tuesday the governor's bundling of school finance legislation was "amateurish" as debate erupted on the Senate floor over progress toward adding a court-ordered inflation adjustment.

Daughter of Rep. Ron Highland pleads for answers after gay-hating bill

Wamego legislator removes his name from "parody marriage" legislation after daughter's outcry.

Capitol Insider podcast: Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt mulls Senate run, 1,000 duties

Republican Derek Schmidt's record of success as a statewide candidate places him in conversations about who might compete for U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts' job in Washington, D.C.

Collaboration key to funding road projects, officials say

Local officials were hopeful Friday afternoon that state officials' enthusiasm for what they saw in Ellis County will travel back to Topeka.

Frustration of solar-power advocates fuels effort to reverse KCC ruling

Diane Budden can observe wind direction by looking out a window of her St. Marys home to see which way smoke drifted from the coal-fired Jeffrey Energy Center power plant.

Woman with mental illness speaks out on ‘unintended consequences’ of step therapy

Dantia MacDonald emerged from her seven-year hiatus from reality in shock with the discovery that everything she believed was wrong.

Social service providers make pitch for funding from Kansas lawmakers

Monica Kurz referenced the life-saving actions of a suicide prevention phone service Monday while making her case for additional funding.

House advances legislation adding transparency to state business tax incentives

The Kansas House moved forward with legislation Tuesday requiring the Kansas Department of Commerce and state legislative auditors to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to income and property tax breaks awarded to businesses to recruit and retain jobs.

Kansas House bill widening deer-hunting opportunities of nonresidents gains traction

Ravenwood hunting lodge owner Ken Corbet tracked down votes Tuesday to advance a House bill allowing Kansas landowners to resell their permits for hunting white-tail deer on the open market at any price to nonresidents of the state.

House bills seek end to labeling teen victims of sex crimes as ‘aggressors’

Rep. Cindy Holscher added a mother-of-two-girls voice Friday to expressions of antipathy about a Leavenworth County judge's decision to lower the prison sentence of a man guilty of soliciting sex from teenagers because the girls were "aggressors" in the case.

Kansas judges, legislators dig into details of suspended-license amnesty program

Sedgwick County Judge Phil Journey said state lawmakers can dramatically improve lives of low-income Kansans by adopting a statewide amnesty program for people with suspended drivers' licenses.

Grief, rage and search for peace convolutes Kansas’ death penalty debate

It took the state of Texas more than two decades to execute the man responsible for the grisly murder of the mother of U.S. Navy veteran Celeste Dixon.

Kansas wildlife secretary at odds with lawmaker over transfer of deer permits

Joel Wimer believes state officials are impeding tourism with restrictions on deer-hunting permits. He operates the C&W Ranch southwest of Salina, where operations include outfitting and guiding hunters across 6,000 acres.

House’s jumbo reform bill offers income, sales tax benefits with a catch

A Kansas House committee blessed a $200 million tax reform bill Monday beneficial to corporations and individuals eager to claim pieces of a federal tax windfall and whittles down the statewide sales tax on food and imposes a sales tax on internet transactions.

Wind energy advocates say proposed restrictions are attempt to end Kansas developments

Alan Albers is tired of being characterized as a terrible ogre whose enthusiasm for wind turbines is selfish and greedy. He rejects claims that low- frequency sounds produced by wind farms have adverse health effects and believes proposed legislation to restrict wind farm development would trample the rights of property owners who welcome payments that augment declining farm revenue.

Dodge City manager offers blueprint for dealing with rural Kansas housing shortage

City manager Cherise Tieben's firm belief that housing construction was a market-driven segment of the economy didn't survive a 2007 meeting with with exasperated Dodge City bankers, developers, Realtors and employers.

Rep. Renee Erickson seeks protections for prayer, religious speech in public schools

Rep. Renee Erickson says she knows from personal experience that protections are necessary for students and faculty members who want to pray in public school.

Kansas lawmakers reject bill on ‘child aggressors’ in sex crimes

Rep. John Carmichael hesitated on a decision that he considered more difficult to make than deciding on the death penalty. Carmichael, a Wichita Democrat and attorney, said he wavered before deciding to oppose House Bill 2283, which would require judges to cease considering child victims declared as "aggressors" as a mitigating factor when determining the sentence of an adult convicted of a sex crime.

Legislature unanimiously forwards $115 million KPERS bill to governor

The Kansas House and Senate completed unanimous approval Friday of a bill allocating $115 million to make a major payment to the state's pension system skipped in 2016 during a state budget crisis.

House bill attempts to encourage savings accounts for Kansas children

University of Kansas professor Melinda Lewis is convinced savings accounts ought to be established at birth for every Kansas child.