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TOPEKA — Kansas tax policy is taking a bigger hack out of revenue to the state than the Great Recession. In fact, state tax revenue is expected to decline more over the next fiscal year than it decreased during the three years of the recession, according to new state fiscal estimates. New revenue figures show that the state will receive $5.454 billion in Please see REVENUE, page 2A
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has been the home quarters for the architecture program ever since it was founded in 1912, and because of that oft-repeated maxim about its studios, the theme for the celebration is “The lights are still on for you.� Guenther, who has his own architectural firm now in St. Louis, is one of the alumni making the trip back for the events that start Friday. The long hours he remembers spending alongside his classmates in the Marvin studios with the pressure of encroaching deadlines are something he looks back on fondly now, he said, because it prepared him for what he does now and helped him build friendships that still continue. And that, he said, is what students from throughout those 100
TOPEKA — In past years, elected officials in Kansas have been nearly unanimous in support of the proposed $1.15 billion National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to be located near Kansas State University in Manhattan. No longer. On Thursday, several members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee voiced concerns about the cost and safety of NBAF, a federal biosecurity lab that will conduct research on deadly animal diseases and develop measures to protect the Abrams nation’s food supply. Their questions are coming as the federal government seeks a much larger commitment from Denning the state to help build the project. President Barack Obama has proposed $714 million in federal funds in his budget for construction of NBAF. But the state is being asked to come up with $307 million, which is $202 million more than what Kansas already has approved. Gov. Sam Brownback has proposed that the state borrow $202 million in bonds to provide the additional funding. Brownback’s chief of staff, Landon Fulmer, urged Ways and Means to approve the deal, but he got pushback from several Republican
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KANSAS UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS work on projects Wednesday in Room 403 at the School of Architecture in Marvin Hall. TOP PHOTO: KU architecture students work in the same studio in 1915, three years after the program’s founding in 1912. Some 98 years later, the KU architecture program has moved from the School of Engineering to its own standalone School of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, but it’s still based in Marvin Hall. The school is celebrating the 100th year of architecture education at KU with a reunion event this weekend.
Alumni reuniting to celebrate century of creativity, late nights By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
The lights are always on at Marvin Hall, or so it is often said among people who’ve passed through the Kansas University architecture program over the years, John Guenther says. That’s because Marvin’s architectural studios are open 24-7 to students working feverishly to meet a deadline the next morning or sketching plans after getting some late-night inspiration. That’s certainly how Guenther, a 1977 KU architecture graduate, remembers it. And that’s the way it still is, said John Gaunt, dean of KU’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning. “Creativity doesn’t sleep,� Gaunt said, and neither, at times, do KU architecture students.
CULIN THOMPSON, Chicago freshman, has a moment of frustration while working on a model at the School of Architecture on Wednesday at KU. The school is celebrating the 100th year of architecture education at KU with a reunion event this weekend, and Gaunt said he expected about 200 to 300 alumni, who attended as far back as the 1940s, to come. Marvin Hall
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TOPEKA — Kansas’ attorney general is warning legislators that the state faces potential lawsuits and more than $1.2 million in costs because of laws enacted this year, including a pro-gun policy aimed at the federal government and a sweeping anti-abortion measure declaring that life begins “at fertilization.� The SenSchmidt ate Ways and Means Committee on Thursday reviewed requests from Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office to boost its budget during the two-year period beginning in July to cover potential litigation costs. The committee is examining spending proposals
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