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KANSAS BUDGET
‘Paying less in taxes’ Brownback denies budget deal represents higher taxes for Kansans; critics say poor hit hardest By Peter Hancock
Water rate increase is in the pipes Average city customer could see double-digit bill change over next 2 years By Chad Lawhorn
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Topeka — Republican Gov. Sam Brownback said Tuesday that he has signed the $6.4 billion general fund budget that lawmakers approved this year, along with a pair of tax bills that raise the state’s sales and cigarette taxes needed to fund it. He also denied that those tax bills — which are expected to raise $384 million in new revenue next year — constitute a tax increase.
The dollar signs are starting to emerge as city commissioners put together the city’s 2016 budget, and significant water and sewer rate increases are among some of the new costs LawCITY rence residents should exCOMMISSION pect. Commissioners at a Tuesday afternoon budget study session were told about likely water and sewer rate Please see WATER, page 10A
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Some would have you believe this bill represents a tax increase.” — Gov. Sam Brownback
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Not only is this a tax increase, it is the largest tax increase in state history.”
A Kansas University student is developing tiny on-board radar systems to help keep small commercial drones from crashing into things — one of
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GOV. SAM BROWNBACK SPEAKS TUESDAY at a press conference in Topeka to announce that he has signed the budget bill lawmakers approved last week, as well as two tax bills that raise the state’s sales and cigarette taxes needed to fund it.
— Senate Democratic Leader Anthony Hensley, of Topeka
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Jazz eatery to replace Wild Wings downtown Town Talk
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o more rumors required about whether Jazz, the popular Kansas City restaurant chain, is coming to Lawrence. A co-owner of the business has confirmed that the company has signed a lease to locate in the former Buffalo Wild Wings spot near 10th and Massachusetts. Damian Farris, a part-
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ner in the business, said the company is beginning remodeling work and hopes to be open by late September or early October “at the latest.” The location will be the sixth for the restaurant chain. Farris said anybody
who has gone to the restaurant’s two locations in Kansas City will feel right at home in the Lawrence location. “It will be the same menu, the same recipes, Please see JAZZ, page 2A
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