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the army times newspaper is reporting its december fifth edition the pentagon officials have now decided to relocate fort riley's people first infantry division from its post on the outskirts of junction city to germany report states that eventually would keep its big red one's identity and its new embassies headquarters writing at fort riley would be to maneuver brigades that comprise the majority of the first infantry division is fighting force the army times newspaper is not affiliated with the army and is a prior to publication run out of suburban washington army officials are not confirming the story officials at fort riley spokesman mark mesquite said that that nothing official from washington and did not want to speculate on the rumor according to the army times reports the changes at fort riley by september of nineteen ninety six the lower the absence of the big red one at fort riley is sure to heighten rumors that the one hundred and forty year old army post and being in the background

well governor a link to graves is relieved that the supreme court did not impose judicial mandates on the legislature to onto its method of funding school districts the saliva republican is still committed to change graves is not forgotten the angry voices he heard on the campaign trail from school administrators like david benson of the blue valley school district who are bitter about the inequities they see in the current system we believe this is the education program one of the major resentments expressed by all school districts is that the school finance law does not accommodate for inflation when the law was passed in nineteen ninety two the legislature decided that school districts would receive thirty six hundred dollars for every student they educated in the three budget is the past that figure has remained the same even though teachers' salaries the price

of books and supplies have gone way up graves communications director michael madsen says the governor liked was to see that figure raised next year ago are alike said during the campaign that his goal was to do something about improving the amount of money which goes for people right now forty six hundred dollars that is doable and that is exactly what he hit his transition team are working on right now in a year that is expected to be fiscally tight many legislators i'm not sure where the graves will be able to deliver on his promise with only forty one billion dollars available for new spending next year republican legislator david atkins of the wood has serious doubts everyone hundred dollar increase in that thirty six hundred dollars an ounce to fifty four million dollars that's fifty four million dollars will have to either be raised from new taxes and i don't believe that there's much interest in raising taxes or fifty four million dollars will have to come from some other aspect or program in the budget that means that people

will have to make very difficult choices if they wish to increase the base aid for people some legislators say the easiest way for graves to boost per pupil spending without raising taxes is to change a provision in the school finance law known as low enrollment waiting hardly any school district that is less than nineteen hundred students can qualify for additional state aid right now eighty five percent of all school districts was seen that money at a cost of more than two hundred and twenty million dollars representative matt cain says that's ridiculous he says the low enrollment prohibition has been manipulated for political ends adkins doesn't object to the idea behind the provision he's as simple economics shows that a smaller school has to pay proportionately more in running costs the larger school adkins bone of contention though is whether district with as many as nineteen hundred students can be classified as small he says most states classify small as being under five hundred students the nineteen hundred students that was determined as the threshold to receive lot

of waiting was not based on any formula other than at nineteen hundred students there were enough votes to pass the bill democrats states as it that will glare of osawatomie agrees that the current low enrollment provision is based more on politics that sound educational policy but a change that he says could amount to political suicide for the new governor elect welcome contends that of graves were to provide additional aid only to school districts with less than five hundred students it would mean almost two hundred and fifty school districts losing money when you just look at does on the surface the easiest thing to do would be say okay let's lower the law to run away eating to five hundred of the value that we save by from all the other schools and is put on the thirty six in about a basic reason that a politically have a far more losers than winners and of the legislature tried to do is try to come up with some solution where everybody's winners if these problems with big enough for bill graves the governor elect also faces financial pressure from growing school

districts in the state such as the blue valley district in johnson county they complain that the school finance law does not adequately reimburse them for the costs of opening up new schools currently the state only covers the cost of running a new school for the first two years after that the school district deserve to fend for itself leaving them in massive debt johnson county school districts are also clamoring for graves to repeal provision in the school finance law that prevents them from raising local taxes by more than twenty five percent of their budgets they argue local communities should be free to vote on tax increases to pay for better schools services graves communications director mike matson says the governor elect is committed to doing that he would like to see a situation where a local school district would not be constrained by caps this was a global guerilla campaign ended it very likely will see some something like that at some point or ninety nine legislative session madsen says there will be pent up demands among school districts all over the state

it's unlikely the governor elect will be able to please everyone on the campaign trail graves made promises in johnson county that he now has to fulfill he also has to make sure it doesn't hurt western kansas you as much of his electoral success to the strength of his western kansas running mate sheila from was senator from colby represent some of the smallest employers districts in the state democrats senate said that worker does not envy the job ahead of graves he says the governor elect is working a political minefield the whole concept of school finance it's somehow take them whether we have for education and to distribute it and equitable and fair manner and obviously whatever you try to do that in recent history to think they got shortchanged governor like graves is expected to reveal a detailed assessment of how he plans to tackle the school finance issue on tuesday at the state house this is mccain's reporting just

really as a battle between the moderate and conservative wings of the republican party not in the hall of a publisher of holder's capitol report says sean that is victory over limit should be viewed as a signal that the state's lawyer chamber is moving farther to the political right twenty years here because a lot of the party also expects issues like abortion school vouchers and school prayer to become more dominant issues in the legislature and as schellenberg of leadership there have been accusations made that the incumbent speaking out have bottled up those bills from being heard on before the house because he personally doesn't agree with them schonberger says he's willing to hear from a legislative regardless of their social or religious positions

shellenberger at computer software salesman who has served in the kansas house for eight years he is currently speaker pro temp another to a leadership position in the chamber earlier this year he ran pittsburgh million head gene those unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign republican representative cost mayans of wichita considered one of the most conservative members of the kansas house is delighted with shellenberger selection speak at events shellenberger will provide more aggressive leadership in the house when his predecessor mayans also says shallenberger will help bring the chamber's legislative agenda more in line with the voters i think that doesn't represent the many of the members of the leadership in the past and now is one of the people curtis the shiite villages in the winter and i think the

novel is our turn to speak here for the people of kansas and to make that change which i think is in tune with what people can do what conservative legislators also scored big in other republican leadership elections susan wagle of wichita was nominated speak a pro tem vince noir bottom of a lake that was retained as house majority leader and robin jenison of huey because the new assistant majority that all of them are pro life some political observers say the conservative sweep the leadership elections could no fuel us schism between the right and moderate wings of the republican party in the kansas house it's believed that moderates might be forced into a rebel raul forming coalitions with democrats on any issues to prevent conservatives from advancing their agenda before this election he was also rumored but shellenberger were nominated by the republican party model of a gop lawmakers would form a pact with house democrats to block his election when the final vote for speaker came before the house in january they would then reinstate militants began

political commentator martin harvard says that's unlikely to happen unanimously you're welcome officers what shellenberger his first duties will be to appoint committee chairs before this election there was speculation that shellenberger would korea house dumping more moderate republican committee leaders and replacing them with conservatives green bean campaign well the focus of attention has been on the speaker's race and

house republicans over the last few weeks democrats have also been meeting to shoot their party leadership in the kansas house they devoted to maintain the status quo keeping tom sawyer wichita's minority leader and billions of kansas city kansas as assistant democratic leader republicans and democrats in the kansas senate are expected to meet later in the month to decide their respective leaderships at the state house this is mccain's reporting on i've got you under my skin creams frank sinatra on the soundtrack of the junior and arnold schwarzenegger has under his skin is a baby the growing fetus that's about to come to term impossible that was the junior so deftly cutting you all the time and the premise of your book before you can defend yourself and danny devito you see work for the biotechnology conference and resist and they've just developed a miracle drug that assists the body in accepting an implanted theatrics when the funding is cut off however the boyz decide to work outside the system to prove their discovery

danny talks on old was about to leave the country in a two ton to cough into accepting the implant just for the first trimester mind you just to gather data that can stop taking the dragon the fetus will be reabsorb back into the system but there are problems and all the sides of the first trimester that he wants to bring the baby to turn my body my choice he declares suspicious of his expanding girth of the senior research administrator frank langella and emma thompson than a researcher at the institute she and online family in love with each other and guess what it's hard frozen egg has been fertilized and accidentally chosen to be implanted a normal on and on on and coping with morning sickness on old dingy on foods ranging from pickles to spare ribs to peanut butter and ice cream arnold bursting out of the mood swings bread by waging on loans and injure same sex couples and arnold exercising his deep breathing in drag in a maternity ward it's all pretty predictable but according to the audience i saw it with

vastly entertaining ways suspenseful thing about jr is ours are going to bring the baby to term and i'll let you chew on that one and i did like about jr are so many opportunities for arnold to play against the macho type even if there are a few too many close shots of bulging prosthetic bellies to sue me and emma thompson steals the show as the clancy research scientist one woman disaster area who returns lab equipment demolishes restaurants with charming aplomb some overseas o'donnell like a whole or is dan's turn a party because the grand old tradition of hollywood screwball comedy junior is a gutsy call for a light comedy especially the holidays but i think on the whole it well shall i say it delivers in an election

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jobs all be transferred to other offices under this latest agriculture department move in kansas is less than a hundred jobs will be affected most of the facilities closing the eastern part of the state the city's on the agriculture department argues in effingham columbus gerard you again anthony greensburg altamont was exactly only for and brightest minds these offices currently administered the federal yeah we did yeah the army has been

under pressure from the pentagon since last year to slash the number of its active duty divisions from twelve to ten as part of its long term budget cutting plan is formally is now experiencing the effects of bad financial decisions the army has recommended that fort riley's famed first infantry division the big red one be abolished five thousand six hundred military positions will be eliminated at the post as well one hundred and forty two million jobs overall the cuts would mean a thirty four percent reduction in troops stationed at fort riley by nineteen ninety six the real organization plan announced by the army affect races in several other states that the reductions recommended at fort riley make the campuses military facility by far the biggest loser despite that fact many officials in kansas are relieved at the news wasn't worse job we fall is the president of kansas state university and a member of the governor's taskforce to say fort riley we're not happy about any reduction literally a modest reduction in a liquidation

thomas who's president of kansas were strong for the ankles we've all sentiments were not happy with at the time the veterinary clinic in junction city where the post is located was always possible that the pentagon may be elected to deactivate fort riley entirely as it stands the one hundred and forty year old military facility will still be left with one to mechanize brigade and one infantry brigade and will still keep around nine thousand troops and being closely monitoring the communications news there it is believed that the army will recommend that two brigades will remain at fort riley we think that that signal a firm commitment from the army to keep the riley have a viable military operation speaking from washington kansas senator bob dole or buried in

comments released to the associated press that also be all these recommendations were a clear indication that the pentagon appreciated the value of keeping fort riley open as a vital maneuver installation also according to the associated press the fact that a two star general would be left who commanded the two remaining delegates at fort riley gives another signal that the post is unlikely to be closed anytime soon military experts say it's unusual for an officer of such high rank to command anything below a division level well the reactions of the army's reorganization plan has been one of relief here in kansas it will some local economists at thirty four percent and a similar action at fort riley will affect millions of dollars out of the state economy casey thomas of kansans for a strong fort riley is mindful of that he is also conscious of the fact that while fort riley's feature babysit you have the now the

military base closings commission will still be next year to make more downsizing recommendations but thomas was convinced that the army is kind of confidence in fort riley and suggested by this latest restructuring plan when the commission oh yeah and then in the next year but senator bob dole has suggested that now that the republican controlled congress there may be a reversal of priorities in washington on what should happen to the military and whether any more cuts are needed at the state house this is mccain's reporting

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wars that don't shine trends less than a tenth the mass of our sun some think the dark matter could be particles in different from atoms to our bodies our planet really causing a flutter and some are putting their money on black holes cut gemstone in mid november that the hubble space telescope its candy edges of our milky way and very few a glor stars the democrats had been another dark matter candidate conversion i'm a visiting assistant professor and brought the whole experiment on his dissertation in bangalore's he thinks they could be murder but detecting little boogers is tricky well to do is to search for the minister was back up and you know look for status should say crossing the face of the moon astronomers using the light of a billion stars in a nearby galaxy as they're back on the track is to talk about the different species of stars that fly between a nearby galaxy on earth

astronomers are working on ashland's has another hand as modest as banning a little stuff as the likeliest dark matter neutrinos are his favor placing second moments weakly interacting massive particles that is these two types of different sized rituals or maybe a trying time smuggler proton global mike there's a hundred times larger than one another difference between us have actually been detected an answer still just a green hair of theoretical physicists measured you care because the fate of the universe rise and at two hundred and two little gravity newsweek has been out for other and end and ice too much things afloat which are most of the time unusually ben could get yanked back what the movie rolling rivers mr thomson ill behavior is writing lots and lots and lots and lots

of time she and william gates said first demonstrate many similarities these two kids have come from troubled backgrounds and are being raised by strong mothers mother's father was arrested for drug trafficking and burglary william's father left the family when he was only three both have counselors that the record for the prestigious angels that high school near chicago located outside of the inner city the school is their first step out of the ghetto at this point however the boys' paths begin to the average author is so poor that his parents are able to continue as to which he has to drop out and go to the more humble marshall hi it's just kind of financial support that might be a lesson in life meanwhile was good enough and he makes the varsity his freshman year he was against the patronage necessary to pay his tuition it little boys makes his way through the four years of high school and a rather

desultory fashion neither is a very good student of people's motivations are outside the basketball court watchers athletic career is a radical williams' career homeruns temporarily about when he says things to knee injuries and several grinds some operations eventually receive scholarships but perhaps i better not take it much farther than that there is a certain degree of suspense indeed in just what's going to happen to these two camps animal dreams as drama and big plays a play off a dazzling play and a high school chorus of chicago area there are no hollywood style big games are happy endings and otherwise obvious superstars like arthur zero isaiah thomas rather hope dreams is a finely textured portrait of two black youth struggling to find again an opportunity on the game of basketball that there is a diamond it is in my opinion the hard driving coach pia tour of st joseph's high is the bobby knight high school groups are having a harassing and shouting except when he pauses to chat a few hail marys during team huddles but there are yellows they are the members of the two boys struggling through

unemployment in our times to keep the families together and somewhere in between our church is likely to get his older brother of former basketball star who's now fatten frustrated looking at his fantasies and the play of his brother and others father wrestling character something of america wealth and lets in and out of his son's life trains makes no promises it's not in the business to deliver a fairly fantasies are happy endings indeed committed to the stories of these two boys and followed them for four years without any guarantees about what happened to them much like colleges that promise for use of education to athletic prospects who are as yet unproven the boys and their families are allowed to speak for themselves with minimal interruptions are intrusions from the filmmakers i like to hoop dreams are not one of the best of the year i give it a solid a ch ch ch

to the naked eye the land institute saliva kansas is more the way of the institute for farber laboratory there are crops such as corn wheat rye and soybean and there are the usual formulated central's of tractors tool shed and pickup trucks even the men and women who work at those two hundred and seventy seven acre complex look and act white farmers and that is where the similarities between the land institute and a traditional farm and at the land institute wes jackson believes they've developed a principled necessary to change modern farming jackson raised eyebrows as he compared the institute's work to the kind of discovery made by the wright brothers we don't have anything that will carry five hundred people across the atlantic we don't by analogy don't have an agriculture little carry the weight that modern agriculture currently carries is the principles that time iran can eventually give us a fundamentally different agriculture for

the next century jackson says of the four hundred million killed acres in this country only fifteen million or one eighth is not a workable so while it's okay to grow annual crops like wheat and corn on about a running so well johnson favors an alternative plan for the other eighty seven percent of the nation's farmlands jackson solution is to grow perennial plants instead of animals bryan gowdy who director of education at the land institute talked about perennial crops an annual grains such as wheat or raw irony of those obviously than a natural state is putting a lot of its energy into prison see because that's where it reproduces while ideal plan puts a lot of its energy into its rhizomes and and puts less of the embassies because this is gonna come back here to here what the question is can you get the crop to produce more seeds without losing some of its strength as a soprano part that's the sixty four thousand dollar question at the land institute of sciences be able to redirect the perennial plants energy to produce more seat if they can humans can

harvest perennial plants as a great value says they've been encouraged by the preliminary results are perennial showing the most promise those four are eligible for mammoth wild rye and especially eastern ghana grass scientists at the land institute are also trying to find answers to other questions for instance traditional farming methods call for growing crops and separate field corn in one field week and another user got modern cultures the jets it was to grow crops together and what is known as a punk culture jackson says several plant species grown together would be more resilient to insects plants a seed and weeds in other words jackson is trying to develop a system modeled after the medical prairie also issue is whether a system rely on cell alone can produce out of nitrogen fertility jackson opposes the use of potentially harmful chemicals he says the prairie as a perfect example of the system they can manage itself the working laboratory at the land institute is the so called sunshine for project

where you've been or overseas the product and is trying to determine how self sufficient before it can be we find out that they're much more and much more energy required to run the bomb them we could produce on the problem and the fact that that is a question we want to know because they will add there's another bond gonna come back come back on input or society's going to have to subsidize solar energy some now and then theres the question where's deciding not to come up with energy sunshine farm project has also been used to compare a perennial power culture with traditional crops such as wheat imports jackson said that for a change the systems are being evaluated by the same rules we're thinking that give it a little time on an even playing field will beat the pants off the end of our cultures but not everyone is as excited as jackson about the prospects of the perennial power culture jerry butler is head of the year grammy department at kansas state university her initial pollen counter that would you

be anyone who we know have been there are some people probably are critical thing of all agriculture has been available there but i think a lot of people jackson knows all too well that the like the wright brothers his contribution should uproot to be fundamentally sound will not be embraced quickly about those and agricultural mainstream on the one hand you have an agriculture that is dependent upon destruction that destruction plays on the other hand we're talking about agriculture modeled after nature's ecosystems and the rewards there does not go to the suppliers of influence the report goes to the farm or the landscape even though west

jackson and his associates have been twirling at the land institute for nearly twenty years it's too early to say whether their ideas will ever be remembered in the same light as the wright brothers so observers say it's conceivable jackson's work will never produce a significant contribution to american agriculture the jackson like the wright brothers is not intimidated by naysayers who say his ideas will never fly for kate and you and david it's our staff folks before too long it'll be time for new year's resolutions it'll also be time for a new governor and a lot of new legislators to hit topeka i'll be among them and right now sitting here kansas i'm wondering about the state of kansas who aren't we want we want to be sitting on my kitchen table next to the stacks of catalogs next

to the flies water all put away as soon as i chase down that left would fly next a lead here is oleander bumper stickers left over from our recent campaign i have some so called facts telling me the state of the state campus african bags that last year kansas was ranked in the top five of most livable states at least in terms of median household income divorce rates high school graduation rate highly fate counties its act that makes me feel good but another clipping shout kansas bottoms out this one quote a sierra club report listing kansas as forty thirty out of fifty states based on one hundred and seventy nine environmental factors we're thirty seven and what we spend on environmental programs forty six than serving up groundwater that might be contaminated by pesticides we're forty six thousand unpaid gas mileage forty eight and toxic chemical underground injections and we are fifty years that's dead last in

renewable resources as a percentage of all energy which is a pity given the kansas side anywhere and yet another clipping tells me that the kansas murder rate is climbing faster than the murder rate in any other state and that our prisons are for to capacity with no sign of relief we have this new death penalty but the average death penalty appeal from sentencing execution is going to cost at ten million bucks per inmate and who has that kind of money as kansas and yet another clipping compares kansas to new york and california seems there's a higher incidence of rape their mutual betting motorcycle accident reported cases of gonorrhea and divorces in the sunflower state then either the empire state or golden state are capped these groupings make me wonder who we really are are we the state described by the parson so last summer

listening to their response to kansas been named a most livable stake he wrote with its wide open skies ever changing weather wonderfully friendly people an abundance of nice size committees kansas deserved recognition this armory is well we that or the crime ridden divorce prone than ariely diseased inferior of new york and california or are we the polluted toxic wasted energy inefficient environmental nightmare that the sierra club report can we be both most liveable and bottoming out fulks sings resolutions are part of a new year and for the legislature let me make a suggestion kansans is your might take a hard look and on that damn lies and statistics the cultural perception their dreams and nightmares of economic about the hopes and fears that we will maintain a rural character in a sense and then let it be resolved that given who we have been who we

are and who we want to be we put our values first and we began to build a society that reflects those values that my new year's resolution anyway eighty three year old league champion lives alone in a small apartment in lines while she's able to cook their own heels dress itself and made herself she does have difficulty getting around a severe respiratory condition means champion is connected to an oxygen tank twenty four hours a day the hopper get along or twice each week shelby it receives a visit from a homemaker with the douglas county visiting nurses association that will make it cleans champions apartment that's a laundry and grocery shopping and generally checks on champion to make sure everything's okay with no family living nearby champion says that without a homemaker jimmy probably have to go

into a nursing home i thought she tries to avoid lost a champion spent a week in a nursing home after developing an emergency medical condition on one anonymous so then she can lead and it was standing by is not going to help myself a huge role in the form of three guys come to you in this like marriages clip of what i don't know and where you are right now you you have your independence you have pre mature standard issue on what can we do but come january first championed they have no choice but to move into a nursing home permanently during the thanksgiving holiday champion was one of about a hundred and forty elderly residents in the war in syria were told they were being cut off the homemaker program due to lack of funds officials at the kansas department of social and rehabilitation services say what's happening in douglas county

is typical of what's going on all over the state the problem is too many needy kansans chasing too few tax dollars as a las vegas show that in the last twelve months alone the number of elderly residents in need of home based care services javelin thirty percent while the kansas legislature has approved modest increases in the sls budget to pay for home based programs it has in no way compensated for the massive increase in case loads state senate as sandy praeger of lawrence says the legislatures reluctance to pump the necessary dollars into community based arabic at one end up costing the state those are making services sometimes mean the difference between staying in the home and eventually having to go to a nursing home so what we're doing here is a wise and pound foolish it's saying that one we can't pay for those basic services and to create a situation where those people if they don't have those services are going into nursing homes costing us more money how much extra money will it cost the taxpayer

well take the case of really champion from lawrence omega service currently costs around two hundred and forty dollars a month if she has to go into a nursing home the cost to the taxpayer will be almost fifteen hundred dollars a month and even if champions condition were to worsen over the next few months and she would need at more intensive care such as having the meals prepared and be bathed and dressed sls figures show that the cost to the taxpayer would still be less than half that of a nursing home dad don't like when the head of the kansas department of social and rehabilitation services says it's time the legislature began to examine the fire costs associated with its decisions currently kansas ranks forty six states in the melt it spends on community based care services for the elderly correspondingly it ranks near the top in the amount of money it spends on nursing homes reichman says that imbalance could end up bankrupt in the state she'll ready projects a doubling of the state's nursing home budget within the next ten years if

we do nothing now between how high mta two thousand five that our budget is going to increase to four hundred and five nine dollars and we can't afford that to not invest in alternatives for senior citizens as they age and eight assistants whiteman is intending to lobby hard during the nineteen ninety five legislative session to increase the funding for a home based care services currently around four thousand elderly kansans receive care in the community whiteman wants to see that number increase to ten thousand within the next five years advocates for the elderly say that not only makes good financial sense it's also in the best interests of all people themselves pd said this founder of the group called kansans for the improvement of nursing homes being in the world that would go into a nursing home is their absolute the first to vote and also their relatives feel the same way that he'd have to put a person and their

single most nursing homes have been a lousy image so if it fails to understand why kansas lawmakers have been so reluctant to take a long term view when it comes to providing care alternatives to nursing homes senator sandy praeger who heads the legislature's joint committee on health and social welfare says the main reason is that the state has not been in the financial position to funnel be tens of millions of dollars necessary up front to build a community based service infrastructure were sort of climbing kits twenty two because we were being so much institutional care we can't afford to provide the kind of care that will allow us to institutionalize people so initially it's going to take additional dollars to get the uk based services the bell sen gregg this is based on current budget estimates it's unlikely that the state will have any money to fight in such a massive undertaking in the near future without raising taxes that's a measure though the republican controlled house and senate are likely to approve government bill graves

is also expressed his reluctance to see any new tax increases the no new tax mentality that has penetrated the political system in kansas infuriates public advocate pete he said if you're not going to raise taxes ever then they make you very popular in you may be voted for but meanwhile what is the result and i think one of the results is that children several people said that i don't think i know that people in kansas and probably everywhere simply don't realize the hard to separate that occurs when people don't get these services the head of the sls donna wegman says that consistent legislative inaction has now left kansas ten years behind other states when it comes to the provision on non nursing home and i get a report from the agency recently pessimistic we concluded that quote kansas is that a good place to grow old end quote whiteman hopes to convince the

legislature in nineteen ninety five and it's still not too late to change that at the state house this is mccain's reporting and you can see why the chairman that we can but it wasn't

yeah yeah the republican controlled legislature is considering two major proposals that would cut taxes the first would eliminate the sales tax on labor used in new construction republican state senator or with the heads the senate taxation committee she says that while that tax brings in twelve million dollars for the state it also stifles homebuilding in kansas especially in growing areas like johnson county when you have builders to work both in missouri and kansas they can sell the same product at a lesser cost it if they build that project on the missouri side rather than on the kansas side the second major proposal and what it will be pushing through the taxation committee is for the elimination of the

sales tax on utilities used a lot of fracturing that tax brings in twenty million dollars a year but according to republicans it's to tearing new business when you start taxing utilities you're raising the costs of production and you can only go by industries say like goodyear that has plants all around the country and the production cost in kansas for goodyear tires are about the highest of any plant anywhere in the country republican lawmakers say the elimination of these two taxes will invigorate the kansas economy but house democratic leader tom sawyer says he's not sure whether the thirty two million dollar tax break for businesses is what most voters want people to us a reduction in taxes but not necessarily the ones that are being talked about right now when bad exemption form of construction ring necked exemption from sales tax free to lose production but i don't think those will affect the average person and i do hear a lot of people want more car taxes i think it's important from cutting taxes eureka contexts first currently

kansas has some of the highest motor vehicle taxes in the nation during the recent election and successful democratic gubernatorial candidate john slattery propose cutting taxes on cars and pickup trucks by fifty percent over five years is that for his opponent republican governor elect bill graves has made it clear that proposal won't be among his legislative priorities at least during his first year in office also house and senate republican leaders have expressed their doubts about whether such a complex cutting bill could pass the legislature doing the upcoming session due to a lack of funds but democratic state senator anthony hensley of topeka says the issue isn't really about too few dollars but the republican leadership's priorities it's almost as if you're looking out more for the wealthy special interests as opposed to the people well a number of democrats in both the house and senate are too few to make any real impact on legislative policy hensley says the party intends to intensely pressured republicans next year to

justify their tax cutting proposals hensley isn't convinced that any more tax breaks for businesses are even necessary he says there's no hard evidence that kansas is losing out to other states because of its sales tax on utilities house democratic leader tom sawyer also says there's no conclusive evidence that contract is refusing to build in kansas because of the sales tax imposed on new construction back in nineteen ninety two a couple weeks ago johnson conficker was record new construction the minutes as quote clear that that women that sales tax exemption on a construction site along with a number of democrats in the kansas senate say they intend to vote against the elimination of the sales tax on new construction unless the bill is linked with a tax cut that will also benefit kansans who can't afford to buy a new home says anthony hensley is suggested that the legislature do away with a sales tax on home remodeling don't make any sense why you know someone chooses to stay in their home and they can't afford to build a new house but they won improve the existing house servant

vincent army than they would have to pay sales tax and in fact they paid for four point nine cents on re modeling world will impose too lenient stance on the new construction and this over a fairness issue if the tax on remodeling homes were eliminated it would cost the state owned twenty five million dollars annually in lost revenue but at a time when kansas is in a tight financial squeeze some state officials are concerned about whether either political party should be considering reducing taxes at all during the past year legislative leaders have refused to approve a number of important programs in the state because they say they don't have the money to pay for them without that is raising taxes finding a way to fund state programs were at the same time answering the voters demand for tax relief is the challenge that awaits kansas lawmakers when they return to topeka in january at the state house this is mccain's reporting winters an assassin

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heart specialist on the tribe said it this way that you didn't it wasn't a genetic variability you're sort of like yuppies you're going to get drummed out of existence a recent report from the national white collar crime center reveal that government and businesses in kansas are losing billions of dollars every year in fraud and internal fact millions more they say are being swindled from kansans by a bogus schemes an unscrupulous business practices one of those teams was discovered recently by nikki keeping an insurance agent in marysville earlier this year king and build the whistle on a fellow insurance agent we discovered it had defrauded an elderly client i'd have more than fifty thousand dollars almost that entire life savings as keaton investigated he found out that the agent involved had lost his license to sell insurance in kansas for years ago when kagan took his evidence to the police though he was stunned by that response in large

numbers the agency be which is our local church of the local county had twenty because the lack of knowledge of of insurance industry they really didn't seemed to be that in terms about congress put a stop this year if you stopped a fight down there are you you use up thirty debbie eye on most issues that would need to be concerned with food because they're ninety two million central kansas has been fought about fifty thousand dollars and nobody seemed to really be concerned about kansas insurance commissioner elect kathleen sebelius says keep this case is not unusual sebelius says there are hundreds of insurance related complaints that go on investigated each year in kansas because authorities don't have the time or resources to deal with them the reality is that the aides are human david we're violent street crime that are very immediate and very frightened oh this is much more insidious because it's a secret it doesn't worry about it people no one's holding a

gun to their hand they may just asked them to sign a check sebelius says that when she takes over the kansas insurance commissioner's office in january for the first time in the department's history she plans to hire a full time prosecutor who's so responsibility will be to handle insurance fraud and abuse cases he's also giving up their fraud detection teams the department of social and rehabilitation services currently has twenty four investigators working on welfare fraud identity theft murders the agency would ask the legislature in january to find out how the ten positions but john mcenroe it was a special agent dealing with a white collar crime but the kansas blew investigation says boosting the number of investigators to handle fraud cases will have little impact on the problem so as the courts failed to impose any meaningful punishments against white collar criminals not write was beautiful and investigative with thirteen years says there were thousands of cases he's investigated prosecuted only two defendants of

episode any time in prison and then less than two years well collar crime case still ten million dollars four hundred million dollars and gets prosecuted under state law and it's your first time and you know there's a lot of christian charity michael really contrasts that with a punishment dished out for robbery and the kansas for a first time offender who knocks down an old woman was snatching hippos could find themselves behind bars for between forty and sixty years under the sentencing guidelines meanwhile the most likely form of punishment meted out in the court system to someone found guilty of embezzlement is a fine or ordered to pay restitution to the victim but laurie cook who is co director of the national white collar crime center based in virginia says even that court imposed sanctions isn't effective ranged between

about the rift valley connections in connection with those cases a million dollars restitution order to date only three hundred and sixty five thousand dollars of that eighty three million has been clocked well she will have one percent search teams performed cook who also serves as a fraud investigator in the kansas securities commission says the court's treatment of white collar criminals is just a reflection of how society itself holds a different criminal standard to embezzlers and con artists than it does to burglars and robbers cook says the problems mentality is that it somehow ok for an office worker had to take a three dollar box of paper clips from the supply closet there's also a view that somehow not illegal to exaggerate your losses of damages were making an insurance claim after all the argument goes

these big corporations can afford to take the losses but koch says the public should be concerned about these practices while the result of such activity might not be life frightening as an armed robbery on a drive by shooting he says it still has a profound impact on everybody's lives to their pocketbooks if you had to get up the average family could take their image and calm the state can push on the mission and to pick up cook would like to see the kansas legislature spend time doing the upcoming session stiffening sentences for white collar criminals at that abi john mcelroy says lawmakers should also changing existing state law that prevents investigators from prosecuting cases more than two years after the offenses committed not only says he has to turn down dozens of cases every year because of that statute for example he says it often takes longer than two years for an employer to find out that he's been swindled by an employee in two

years now that sanders expired a special occasions those expire this tipping point marco i would like to see lawmakers extend the statute of limitations to five years at the national white collar crime center many cokes as perhaps the most effective way kansas concur that white collar crime is to educate state agencies businesses and the public but how to prevent such crimes from happening in the first place cook says the state is that a good job of showing the public how they can protect themselves and the government should spend a tremendous amount grant money in the region and i think that's the area that needs to be addressed and what type of schemes are out here and they're sitting ducks and not hire another crime police to interest so far

there's no indication that the legislature has any plans to die that tax dollars into prevention programs now there are there any indications that lawmakers will extend the statute of limitations that will allow for more flexibility in prosecuting fraud cases speaking recently kansas attorney general elect cost for that was she recognizes the overwhelming problem of white collar crime she does not intend to make the issue a priority in her administration at the state house is as mccain's reporting it's changing quickly and though the artist who twenty years ago in the seventies a lot of the borrowers who were there ten years ago are distressed many changes i mean yeah because the house there's two hundred and thirty thousand dollars the santa fe i years ago the building to places where they can pursue their careers and maintain contact with an art market

countrywide live in a smaller more affordable for hometowns did you consider ensign talking to talk and people are agencies from state to stay on top of a couple hundred names of towns it's really shocking how many towns are becoming attractive places first to an unsettling and also it's amazing how many towns are accommodated themselves so that they take to make it in your book lawrence as an example that stands at about lawrence that many qualify as one of the one hundred past there is a wealth of talent that's being directed toward improving and maintaining the quality of these communities aren't seen and i think the lawrence is a truly fortunate to have this orientation to not be driven by

what people are willing to spend for what the securities that our party that are attractive for visitors you have to understand that in many cases the entire immigration is to sell art and they're not always been perplexed by the problem was an art gallery and what is the story itself paintings what's the difference and i don't have a problem to deal with can be a double edge sword gun and that it be a problem for artists here that there are very few local markets this is really a problem this work in humans compared to either different festivals to find their favorite local artist selling at a cafe in kansas city or some other place to find

works of art it seems to me that one of the missions here in lawrence is the lack of a cooperative artist gallery it's an emotion that needs to be addressed not only that but it was a community prisons a prime opportunity or somebody who is concerned about the arts fine arts the visual arts and in lawrence and his concern about having honest about their careers established a an art gallery that use is a long term commitment to developing a base of customers and collectors were going to buy art two words dancers very hard that end up in europe or two words big mistake a town in northern california that will remain nameless that do the altar and so when it came time to fill in that space i had the option of either making his book the ninety

nine that's a small hundred and that's how branson and you know obviously there are artists who haven't been since that happens to be right about there happens to be some artists there who are very serious about their careers they are so they were shot out by all the other really because in that event do you worry at all that some of their town's most in your book that you could contribute to them heading in that direction sort of going over the top getting been overdeveloped and enter town that's going to lead to the character of these towns changing but analysts that against the prospect that i can actually help the artists and help the art gallery owners in these communities to make a living the other thing that i'm trying to do is trying to help these are councils

that are around the country in these small communities to make a case for their art scenes in their art development as being vital to their communities economic and social health if you cut off arts funding sources are going to be smart and you know he's really just pushed the air and can not dishonesty that can congress or can a state senate nominee and in good conscience cut jobs by cutting the arts can the citizens originally allow that to happen i don't think so i think that we need to realize that a local level the arts development in what economic development which results in jobs you're

going to be in years and i'm used to that and you'd be right again