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A financing program aimed at spurring economic development is causing a rift among Kansas Republican legislators. While Republicans tend to stick together and overwhelm the other party with their two-thirds majority, this particular issue has not recognized any party lines. STAR Bonds, short for Sales Tax and Revenue Bonds, allows municipalities to issue bonds to finance development of major commercial, entertainment and tourism projects. Bonds are paid off through sales tax revenue generated by the project. The program expires in June, but the Kansas Department of Commerce wants to extend it...

Noah Taborda, Kansas Reflector photo by: Associated Press The Kansas senate debates Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 at the statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (Evert Nelson/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP) Topeka — The Kansas Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would greatly expand a tax credit program for private school scholarships, with Republican legislators batting away several intraparty dissenters and suggested amendments in a lengthy debate. The program that the bill would affect uses tax credits to reimburse donations that fund scholarships for private schools — up to a 70% reimbursement of a...

GREAT BEND TRIBUNE More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Prosecutors ask speedy trials be suspended Bill would delay requirement due to COVID-19 backlog Levi Morris Barton County – 40  Riley County - 92                Sedgwick – 468 (not sure if that’s supposed to be 468 or the 648 in the article) Shawnee County - 647 Sumner County – 18 Barton County Attorney Levi Morris agrees with and supports the efforts...

Read Article Rangeley Lakes Chamber of Commerce 2021 Executive Board members, from left, are Secretary Sue Damm, Member at Large Ken McDavitt, President Joanne Dunlap, Vice President Margie Jamison and Treasurer Linda Dexter. RANGELEY — The Rangeley Lakes Chamber of Commerce held its annual meeting Jan. 27 via Zoom and announced election results. Joanne Dunlap, who served on the executive board as president in 2020, was reelected to a one-year term as chamber president. Margie Jamison, Linda Dexter and Ken McDavitt, who all served on the executive board in 2020, were reelected to one-year...

/ Johnetta Randolph Haley knew she wanted to be a music educator early on. She broke racial barriers and founded Head Start in East St. Louis. She died at age 97. Johnetta Randolph Haley, a music teacher who, over the vehement objections of white parents, helped integrate a Kirkwood middle school after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down school segregation in 1954, has died. She was 97. “Fifteen hundred people signed a petition they didn’t want me or the other three (teachers) only because we were black,” Haley said in a 2018 awards program video. “But after one year, they wanted their...