Air Force has successful day at USAFA Round Robin United State Air Force Sports Information 2/20/2021 USAFA, Colo. The Air Force Academy wrestling team wrapped up the regular season with the USAFA Round Robin, Saturday afternoon, Feb. 20, at the East Gym. The Falcons had 22 wrestlers compete in paired matches against Northern Colorado and Utah Valley in the final tune-up before Big 12 Championships.
The event was a non-team scoring, non-weight class champion event, and served as an opportunity for grapplers to get their final matches of the regular season in before Big 12s. AF s 22 wrestlers combined for 28 wins in a highly successful afternoon.
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Sen. Caryn Tyson, the Parker Republican and chairwoman of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee, offered the Senate a bill cutting state taxes by $175 million, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka. After hours of debate, the bill escalated into a $470 million or more package of tax reform.
TOPEKA The Kansas Senate fought through a flurry of tricky procedural amendments Tuesday to more than double the financial ramifications of a bill throwing tax breaks at multinational corporations sitting on overseas profits, wealthy people keen to itemize deductions, folks excited about higher standardized deductions and retirees weary of having Social Security benefits taxed.
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Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, February 2014.
TOPEKA (AP) A House committee has advanced a bill to expand Kansas’ recognition of other states’ concealed carry permits.
The bill is backed by Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt, who said in a hearing last month that the bill would help the state maintain reciprocity agreements with other states so that Kansans can carry concealed firearms elsewhere.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee on Wednesday voted 14-5 to advance the bill to the full House for a vote.
Schmidt said that when Kansas lawmakers passed a law in 2015 allowing residents to carry concealed firearms without a permit, they removed a provision that required the attorney general to recognize concealed carry permits issued by other jurisdictions. Schmidt said states had since raised concerns with his office about the lack of reciprocity language in Kansas’ law.
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Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, February 2014.
TOPEKA (AP) A Kansas lawmaker and the state’s Republican attorney general are pushing a bill to require high school students to pass a civics test to graduate in an effort to increase civic engagement.
The proposal is facing pushback from members of the state’s largest teacher’s union, the second-largest school district and the Kansas Association of School Boards, which say that students are already getting an education in civics in government and history classes.
The House Education Committee heard testimony on the bill Wednesday but took no action.
Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., is pictured on May 3, 2016.
When auditors arrive at City Hall this spring to do their annual review of the city’s books, city officials expect they will find that many of the problems of the past two years have been resolved. Others, though, will take more time.
In the 2018 and 2019 financial audits, the auditing firm RSM had to make enough corrections to the city’s financial records $63 million and $32 million worth, respectively that the city was flagged as having a “lack of internal controls over financial reporting,” meaning the city did not have proper procedures and controls to ensure mistakes in its financial statements would be detected. One recurring problem was the city’s inability to reconcile all its cash statements, which is a process similar to how someone would balance a checkbook to ensure personal financial records matched the financial transactions logged by the bank.