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City manager proposes hold-the-line budget
Bus system in peril if voters don’t approve sales tax hike in November
By Chad Lawhorn
July 3, 2008
City Manager David Corliss presented a recommended 2009 city budget on Thursday that bets heavily on a new sales tax to save the city’s public transit system, and largely bets against a quick turnaround in the local economy.
Heating up the past
Dating method aids Pawnee research
Associated Press
July 3, 2008
You might be surprised what you can learn from a campfire. A campfire that has been cold for, say, 300 years. Stacey Lengyel is hoping she can tell, within 30 years or so, when it was used.
22 gang members arrested in Wichita
Associated Press
July 3, 2008
Federal immigration officials and Wichita police arrested 22 Mexican gang members in a roundup targeting four violent street gangs, authorities announced Wednesday.
After floods, mosquitoes start plaguing Midwest
By Lindsey Tanner - Associated Press Writer
July 3, 2008
First came the floods — now the mosquitoes. An explosion of pesky insects are pestering clean-up crews and just about anyone venturing outside in the waterlogged Midwest.
Wittig appeals decision upholding sentence
J-W Staff Reports
July 3, 2008
A former Westar Energy Inc. executive is trying to invalidate an appeals court decision that could send him back to prison.
Bigger tax refunds lop state budget
By Scott Rothschild
July 3, 2008
State government’s economic woes worsened during the past two months in part because of huge business tax refunds, officials said Wednesday.
County to ponder tightening budget
By Mike Belt
July 3, 2008
Douglas County commissioners next week will decide which of two bitter tax pills to swallow. Or they can come up with their own version of mill levy increase poison.
Search panel OK’d to find new KSU leader
J-W Staff Reports
July 3, 2008
The search for a replacement for Kansas State University’s retiring president Jon Wefald took a step forward Wednesday as the Kansas Board of Regents approved a search committee.
Grand jury declines to indict Tiller
By Roxana Hegeman - Associated Press Writer
04:53 p.m., July 2, 2008 Updated 12:00 a.m.
A Kansas grand jury declined Wednesday to indict one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers, saying it did not find enough evidence to indict him on any crime related to abortion laws.
Division to celebrate history
By John Milburn - Associated Press Writer
July 2, 2008
First Infantry Division alumni and past commanders will converge on Fort Riley later this month for “Victory Week,” celebrating the division’s history and lineage.
Bids to be accepted for road repaving
J-W Staff Reports
July 2, 2008
City commissioners aren’t betting on oil prices declining anytime soon.
Fireworks displays are planned for area
J-W Staff Reports
July 2, 2008
Fireworks show junkies have plenty of options to get their fill this weekend for the Fourth of July. In Lawrence, the big show was moved to Clinton Lake this year from the Kansas River. The Sesquicentennial Point fireworks display by the Lawrence Jaycees will begin at 10 p.m. Friday.
Fort Riley adviser killed in Afghanistan
J-W Staff Reports
July 2, 2008
Fort Riley officials say an Army adviser from Michigan has died from an insurgent attack in Afghan-istan.
Farmers may enroll for ‘safety net’ help
J-W Staff Reports
July 2, 2008
Farmers have until Sept. 30 to sign up for the Kansas USDA Farm Service Agency’s 2008 Direct and Counter-cyclical Program, a program designed to provide support counter to the cycle of market prices as part of a “safety net” in the event of low crop prices.
County budget cuts on horizon
By Mike Belt
July 2, 2008
Some serious financial belt-tightening is ahead for Douglas County leaders as they start work on the 2009 budget. If the county maintains the same level of services it is providing in 2008; adds no employees but gives workers a 1 percent cost-of-living pay increase; and provides funding for an industrial park, the county’s share of the mill levy would increase 5.75 mills, County Administrator Craig Weinaug said.
Environmentalists praise Georgia decision against coal-fired plant
By Scott Rothschild
July 1, 2008
Environmentalists in Kansas praised Georgia court decision that says carbon dioxide emissions should be taken into account when deciding whether to build coal-burning power plants.
Pro coal-plant lawmakers appointed to energy panel
Sloan among those named by Neufeld
By Scott Rothschild
July 1, 2008
House Speaker Melvin Neufeld appoints lawmakers that supported Holcomb project to panel mapping out longterm energy plan.
State revenues miss projections in latest quarter
By John Hanna - Associated Press Writer
10:54 a.m., July 1, 2008 Updated 12:00 a.m.
State government collected $61 million less than anticipated in taxes during its recently ended 2008 fiscal year, a 1 percent shortfall that could create budget headaches.
Broken water line caused sinkhole
By Alexander Parker
July 1, 2008
A sinkhole that appeared late last week in the East Hills Business Park was caused by a water line break, city officials said. The gaping hole, about 5 feet wide, between the 3700 and 3800 blocks of Greenway Circle, will be repaired this week.

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