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GOP jockeys over tax changes
Learning to wing it
By John Hanna Associated Press
Topeka — Republicans who control the Kansas Legislature gravitated Tuesday toward proposals that would increase the state’s sales tax to help eliminate a projected budget deficit but also considered LEGISLATURE lowering the tax on food. GOP lawmakers remained split over whether to repeal an income tax break for business owners and farmers enacted in 2012, as the anti-tax group Kansas Club for Growth launched a statewide cable television advertising campaign to preserve it. Please see TAX, page 8A
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Green energy peel-back could start soon as today
A YOUNG BARRED OWL SITS IN A TREE NORTH OF LAWRENCE near an owl box where it was hatched. The property belongs to Journal-World chief photographer Mike Yoder and his wife, Karen Seibel. The box, shown in photo at left, has had nesting owls every year for the past four years. It’s 20 feet up in a tree with a south exposure. The owl parents bring food, such as snakes and other creatures, to the fledglings until they are old enough to fend for themselves, usually four to five months. The bird in the box, just on the verge of learning to fly, is the sibling of the one above, who has already ventured out.
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Topeka — The Kansas House and Senate could start acting as early as today to repeal a 2005 law that requires electric utilities to produce at least 20 percent of their power from renewable reWe believe sources such as wind by 2020. events. Like at Decade, the the free market Besides replacing Waffle Iron will be open only three days per week — the “20 by 2020” man- is the best place date with a voluntary to decide where from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday “goal,” the bill, which energy comes through Sunday. But the has passed the House from.” new space also will give the Waffle Iron a chance to and won approval in a conference commitdo some nighttime waffle tee, also reduces the — Jeff Glendening, events. Donnell said he hopes to do at least one per current lifetime prop- Americans for erty tax exemption Prosperity lobbyist month, and he may partner up with other local chefs for for renewable energy projects to 10 years. those projects. One other What may be most remarkable about Senthing the move will do: Brunch-like cocktails will be ate Bill 91 is that neither the electric utilities covered by the current mandate nor their available with the waffles. customers who pay the electric bills asked John Brown Underground for the legislation. will be serving some of the
Waffle shop moving to bigger digs downtown
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’m getting that paranoid feeling that I’m assuming cattle sometimes get: Someone is trying to sell me by the pound. All this is to say that I’ve gotten news that a waffle house is opening in downtown, right across the street from the Journal-World offices. Back in January, we reported that the Waffle Iron was opening inside the East Lawrence coffee shop Decade. Well, that experiment was met with success and a whole lot of maple syrup in a fellow’s whiskers. Proprietor Sam Donnell, though, said it was
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becoming clear the Waffle Iron was outgrowing the relatively small space of Decade. So, Donnell has signed a deal to move the
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restaurant into larger space at 7 E. Seventh St. If you are having a hard time picturing the location, it is in that stretch of buildings between the Java Break and Hobbs. More specifically, it is the space that is directly above John Brown Underground, which is the speakeasy-style bar and restaurant that I wrote of back in August. John Brown Underground and the Waffle Iron will both use the space. John Brown uses the space — which has old wood floors and giant windows overlooking Seventh Street — for private
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