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THERE HAS BEEN NO MOVEMENT in the Kansas Legislature on a proposal to repeal the Renewable Portfolio Standard.
Renewable energy fight brewing in Statehouse By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ljwrothschild
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RICHARD HAIG PUMPS GAS FOR A CUSTOMER at Westside 66 at 2815 W. Sixth St. Haig’s is the last filling station in Lawrence to offer full-service gasoline pumps. The service costs more than self-serve but includes window cleaning and tire and fluid checks.
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ing, ding. In 1981, that sound still produced magic as often as “abracadabra.” A car would pull up to something called a “service station,” its tires would roll over a little rubber hose that would trigger a bell, and a man with a squeegee and a red shop rag would emerge like a rabbit out of a hat. And then, get this, he
would fill your car up with gasoline. Yes, you still had to pay for it (even magic has its limits). But he would take care of the mundane task while you sat in the comfort of your car, bopping your big hair against the headliner as either Boy George or George Michael played on the radio. In 1981, Richard Haig had the squeegee. Back then, he was just an em-
ployee at the Westside 66 filling station, 2815 W. Sixth St. Back then, that area — now across the street from a Dillons grocery store — was a museum but just didn’t know it. There was the El Navajo Drive-Up Motel, a little farther west the Sunset Drive-In Theater, and a full service gasoline station. In 1981, there were still Please see LAWHORN, page 2A
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Topeka — Demands from conservatives to jettison Kansas’ renewable energy standards died down by halftime of the 2014 legislative session, but like the Kansas weather, that could change at any moment. Asked if the effort to repeal renewable energy goals was dead for 2014, Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, responded. “Oh no. The session is just starting.” Wagle added, “It’s still a viable issue that people are concerned about. Typically the big issues are debated in the later half, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see us debate that sometime soon.” The Kansas Legislature adjourned last week for a brief break after the deadline for bills to win approval in at least one chamber. There are exceptions to the rule, but during the weeks before the deadline, no movement was made on a proposal to get rid of what is called the Kansas Renewable Portfolio Standard, or RPS. Approved in 2009, the RPS required major utility companies to have the capacity to generate 10 percent of their energy through a renewable source by 2011. It also called for the companies to generate 15 percent of their energy through a renewable source by 2016 and 20 percent by 2020.
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U.S. SENATE RACE
Senator makes right turn to hold ground against challenge in primary By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
In early February, something happened in Washington that would have been unimaginable a decade or so earlier: The senior senator from Kansas, along with the state’s entire House delegation, voted against a 10year, $195 billion farm bill, despite the fact that the Kansas Farm Bureau had urged its passage. For someone like Pat Roberts, who represented Kansas’ “Big First” congressional
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district for 18 years before moving to the Senate, serving the interests of the state’s farm communities and agricultural industry was once considered a basic part of the job description. But now, as Roberts runs for his third term in the Senate, he faces a tea party-backed challenger in the upcoming GOP primary who says Roberts’ years of service in Washington, and his skills in securing funding for things like farm programs should be viewed as
Pat Roberts Party: Republican Age: 77 (born April 20, 1936) Residence: Dodge City Education: Kansas State University, bachelor’s degree in journalism. Career: U.S. House of Representatives, 1981-1997; U.S. Senate, 1997-present. Website: www.robertsforsenate.com
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Milton Wolf’s name has never appeared on an election ballot in Kansas before. But in his first bid for public office, he hopes to become a United States Senator by unseating one of the most entrenched figures in modern state politics, incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts. And with the fervor that has come to characterize the tea party movement that is backing him, Wolf says it is nothing short of a mission to save the nation from ruin.
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“I know our country is in trouble, and if we don’t stand up and fight now, we may not have it tomorrow to fight,” Wolf said Thursday to a crowd of about 50 people that had gathered at a Topeka pub to hear him speak. “I believe we’re at a constitutional tipping point in our country,” he said. “We have a president who is trying to rule by administrative action, who is trying to rule through his agencies. He’s trying to rule with his phone and his pen. And we have a Congress that is too paralyzed to
Milton Wolf Party: Republican Age: 42 (born April 8, 1971) Residence: Leawood Education: Kansas University, bachelor’s degree; KU School of Medicine, M.D. Career: Radiologist, Alliance Radiology, Overland Park. Website: www. miltonwolf.com
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