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Casino ‘never discussed’ in connection with land buy
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Lawrence mayor says tribe wants 90 acres near Kansas Turnpike for its headquarters By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
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RICHARD BEAN INSPECTS HIS BEE OPERATION Wednesday on North 1350 Road. While beekeepers nationwide have reported significant losses of their colonies, beekeepers in Kansas have so far been able to maintain their bee populations. Below, a worker bee clings to one of Bean’s honeycombs.
Area beekeepers mostly evade colony collapse, but not worries By Nikki Wentling nwentling@ljworld.com
On a spring day earlier this year, Sharon Dobesh left her office in the plant pathology department at Kansas State University, got into her car and headed for Great Bend. She had just received a phone call from a beekeeper in that area, and what he said had prompted her to make the two-hour drive west to see the situation for herself.
The beekeeper’s colonies were dead. As the go-to expert for bee-related questions for the greater part of Kansas, Dobesh was accustomed to getting calls from amateurs and tending to problems that were usually rooted in common mistakes. But the call she received that day was from a keeper who had managed bees for more than 30 years. What Dobesh saw when
Lawrence’s mayor isn’t convinced a recent high-profile land purchase by the Delaware Tribe of Indians is a sign the tribe wants a casino here. Mayor Mike Dever said that he spoke with the chief of the tribe before its purchase earlier this month of about 90 acres of highly visible property near the Kansas Turnpike interchange at North Lawrence. “Gaming or a casino was never discussed,” Dever said. Instead, Dever said tribal leaders indicated they were looking for property for their tribal headquarters, which currently are in Bartlesville, Dever Okla. “It was more about establishing a sovereign location for their tribe in an area that was originally their home,” Dever said. The Delaware tribe had a reservation between Lawrence and Leavenworth between 1830 and 1866. Following the Civil War, the federal government forced the tribe to move to an Oklahoma reservation. In March, the Leavenworth Times reported that the Delaware were considering moving their headquarters to Wyandotte or
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Audit to examine services for disabled; critics allege retaliation TOPEKA (AP) — A Kansas legislative committee has launched an audit into potential problems in the state’s delivery of services to the developmentally disabled but a Democratic leader sees the review as retaliation against groups that have criticized Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration. The audit approved Tuesday by the Post Audit Committee will examine whether conflicts of interest exist in having 27
regional community developmental disability organizations, or CDDOs, act as gatekeepers for developmentally disabled Kansans seeking state-funded services. Some critics of the system have noted that CDDOs can compete with local service providers. The audit was sought by Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a Hutchinson Republican, and authorized after the audit committee’s chairman, Sen.
Medicaid program over to three private health insurance companies, renaming it KanCare. Long-term services for the developmentally disabled won’t be included until next year in the overhauled program, but some critics want to leave longterm support services for Kansans with intellectual disabilities out of KanCare. “This audit is the Brownback administration’s political payback for community opposition
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Jeff Longbine, an Emporia Republican, broke a tie. The Legislative Division of Post Audit expects to take six months to compile its reBruce port. Some CDDOs have been vocal critics of Brownback’s decision to turn the administration of the state’s
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to the KanCare carve-in of developmental disability services,” Hensley said. But Longbine said the latest audit will follow up on reports in 1999 and 2003 that identified problems in how Kansas provides services for the developmentally disabled, including how clients are referred to providers and how funding is distributed. And Bruce said a claim Please see AUDIT, page 2A
Shelter seeks supplement
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Officials with The Shelter Inc. are asking the county commission for more than $40,000 to replace money lost from the state to operate an early intervention program. Page 3A
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