Kansas on Thursday July 02, 2009

KS: Governor to reveal budget plan
By The Associated Press, The Topeka Capital-Journal
Educators and officials in Kansas are awaiting word from Gov. Mark Parkinson about how he plans to balance the state budget.
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KS: State payments to Kansas school districts get held back again
By Kansas City Star staff, Kansas City Star
Budget problems have forced Kansas to delay $73 million in aid payments due to public school districts at the end of June.
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Stimulus eases community college troubles
By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org
States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system.
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Weekly wrap: Report questions states' use of stimulus road funds
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer
States are spending too much stimulus money on new road construction and not enough on public transit projects, a national advocacy group claims in a report issued Monday (June 29). Meanwhile, Michigan and California consider teaming up to solve their prison problems and North Carolina and Rhode Island face off with Amazon.com over taxes.
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KS: Community colleges sue regents
By The Associated Press, The Topeka Capital-Journal
DODGE CITY, Kan. — Three community colleges have sued the Kansas Board of Regents claiming unequal funding for some of their vocational and technical programs.
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KS: Planned parks budget cuts draw fire
By Brent D. Wistrom, Wichita Eagle
City parks employees, three state representatives and a few others sharply criticized a proposal to privatize parks maintenance Wednesday at a first-of-its kind public discussion about the city's dire budget situation.
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US: Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor
More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes.
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US: Mississippi tops obesity rankings; Colorado is leanest state
By The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Mississippi remains at the top of the list in this year's national annual obesity rankings, with Alabama coming in second. Outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news.
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