KS: Newest State House addition — $296K

By   /  August 17, 2012  /  Kansas, Kansas History, News  /  No Comments

Kansas' century-old weathered copper Capitol dome will be bright as new penny when renovations are finished $10 million from now.

By Gene Meyer | Kansas Reporter
FAIRWAY — Toss another $296,000 onto the pile of Kansas Capitol renovation costs.
That’s the price of an elaborate 900-pound chandelier that restorers installed this week under the Capitol dome, said Barry Greis, the Capitol architect on the front lines of what has become a 12-year, $320-million project to restore Kansas’ Capitol [...]

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KS: New chandelier sheds little light on Capitol makeover costs

By   /  August 16, 2012  /  Featured, Kansas, Kansas Government, Kansas History, News, State Government  /  No Comments

This is how Kansas' capitol dome looked for seven decades before architects installed a new chandelier.

By Gene Meyer | Kansas Reporter
FAIRWAY – Kansas has a nifty new chandelier under the Capitol dome. Workers installed it this week.
The ornate, fabricated brass and cast bronze light fills a void, which has existed since its 19th century predecessor was sacrificed to a World War II scrap metal drive.
It’s a beauty, said Gary Behm, [...]

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KS: Tracking the PACs – big money flowing into crucial Senate contests

By   /  August 2, 2012  /  Elections, Featured, Finances, Kansas, Kansas History, News, Politics & Elections, State Government  /  1 Comment

Big PAC money is pouring into campaigns ahead of next week's primary election, with control of the Senate hanging in the balance.

By Earl Glynn | Kansas Watchdog
TOPEKA —  Big PAC money is pouring into campaigns ahead of next week’s primary election, with control of the Senate hanging in the balance.
But questions surround shifting campaign money and shadowy political action committees, with voters caught in the line of fire.
Conservative Gov. Sam Brownback and the conservative Kansas House [...]

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Obama declares ‘make or break moment for middle class’ in Kansas speech

By   /  December 6, 2011  /  Column A, Economy, Kansas, Kansas History, Kansas Watchdog, Video  /  9 Comments

By Gene Meyer / Kansas Reporter
OSAWATOMIE — President Barack Obama traveled Tuesday to this small northeast Kansas community’s high school gym to decry a growing division of wealth in the United States that he said is creating a “make or break moment for the middle class.”
Don Davis, who for 20 years has been cutting hair [...]

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History Shines Light on Obama’s Choice to Speak in Osawatomie

By   /  December 4, 2011  /  Column B, Commentary, Economy, Kansas, Kansas History, Kansas Watchdog, News  /  1 Comment

President Barack Obama will deliver a speech on the national economy at Osawatomie High School, next to John Brown Memorial Park, at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
The venue is puzzling unless you understand a speech there on Aug. 31, 1910, by former President Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt’s address called for a “New Nationalism” in which the federal government, and [...]

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