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Kansas consumers to see ACA premium spikes
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Topeka, Kan. (ap) — An analysis for The Associated Press shows Kansas consumers next year will see their premiums soar by 46 percent in health insurance markets created by President Barack
Obama’s overhaul. That exceeds what the Obama administration says will be an average 25 percent jump in premiums for a benchmark plan across the 39 states served by the federally run online market.
But the analysis by Avalere Health and the AP also shows Kansas still will have two participating insurers in all 105 of its counties, as it had when the Affordable Care Act was rolled out in 2014.
Nationwide, about one-third of U.S. counties will have one health marketplace insurer in 2017 — double the number of counties with a single insurer in 2014. Sign-up for plans starts Tuesday.
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Court decisions, signup influx delay voter registration By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
Topeka — More than a week after county election officials in Kansas were supposed to have certified their voter registration rolls for the Nov. 8 election, several county officials say they still need more time, citing a mountain of backlogged registrations still being processed. “All the big counties keep receiving lists of stuff that need to be worked,” Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said Friday. Tuesday, Oct. 18, was the deadline for voters to register in time for the election. And according to a calendar on the secretary of state’s website, the following Thursday, Oct. 20, was the day county election officers were supposed to certify to the secretary of state and county party chairs their voter registration numbers, broken down by precinct and party affiliation. > DELAY, 2A
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LAWRENCE RESIDENT DANA DYER HANGS OUT WITH A FEW OF THE KILLER CLOWNS DECORATING HIS YARD at 1755 East 1310 Road on Friday afternoon. Dyer’s haunted yard is open for viewing from 7 until 11 p.m. today and Monday evening. BELOW LEFT: With a gun in one hand and a bottle of rum in the other, this skeleton pirate awaits those who are brave enough to enter Dyer’s yard. BELOW RIGHT: Zombies like this one are also prominent figures in Dyer’s yard.
Justices of Kansas high court defend handling of capital cases By John Hanna Associated Press
KU Journalism’s ad agency creates ringtone of ‘Big Tooter’
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hat good University of Kansas alumnus doesn’t miss the unmistakable wail of KU’s famous steam whistle signaling the end of class? Anyone miss it enough to make it the ringtone on your phone? That’s now an
option. The Agency, the KU School of Journalism’s student-run ad agency, has created a KU steam whistle ringtone in conjunction with the launch of its more edgy, nonconventional arm, Steam Whistle Creative. You can purchase and download the
new ringtone via the iTunes store for $1.29. (Under tones, search for “The Steam Whistle.”) According to a KU journalism school announcement, they are still working with Google Play and hope to have the ringtone available there soon.
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Heard on the Hill
Sara Shepherd
Topeka (ap) — Four Kansas Supreme Court justices facing a campaign to oust them in the Nov. 8 election say the court has decided capital murder cases on legal and constitutional issues while avoiding politics and emotion. Past high court rulings overturning death sentences are at the center of the effort to remove Chief Justice Lawton Nuss and Justices Carol Beier, Dan Biles and Marla Luckert. They face statewide yesor-no votes on whether they stay on the court for another six years. The court’s critics are particularly upset about July 2014 rulings overturning death sentences for Jonathan and Reginald Carr. The two brothers had faced lethal injection for shooting four people in December 2000 after forcing them to perform sex acts and robbing them. Among other things, the court concluded that fairness required the brothers to be sentenced separately.
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