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The Honoring Our Heroines viewing gala is a promotional and fund-raising event for the Plaza of Heroines of the Center for Women’s Studies at Wichita State.
The Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee this week is hearing from opponents and supporters of a tobacco tax increase. The bill would increase the state?s cigarette tax from 79 cents to $1.34 per pack. The tax for other types of tobacco would increase from 10 to 40 percent of the wholesale cost. Yesterday opponents lined up to testify against the legislation. Stephen Koranda has more.
Officials at a handful of small school districts are likely breathing a sigh of relief because legislation that could have cut their budgets was gutted in the Kansas House. Stephen Koranda has this report.
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Kansas City, Mo., has just approved one of the largest school closures in the nation's history. All over the U.S., the number of districts shutting schools is growing rapidly in the face of declines in both revenue and enrollment.
Clairvoyant computers may be nearer to reality than you'd think. In a new study, a computer program that analyzes brain scans was able to detect participants' thoughts — or at least their memories of a short film they were thinking about.
A budget crisis could lead New York to close the farm where John Brown is buried. Closing the burial site would save taxpayers about $40,000 a year, a tiny chunk of the state's $8 billion deficit. Historians say that's not enough to warrant the loss.
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