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There was little sign of spring across a large swath of the U.S. Midwest on Sunday as a powerful storm dumped heavy snow across a widespread area.
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The FAA, which oversees the nation's air-traffic system, said it would keep funding the towers until June 15 in order to resolve legal challenges brought by airports. The FAA must trim roughly 10 percent of its budget by the end of the Sept. 30 fiscal year.
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The FAA, which oversees the U.S. air traffic system, must trim roughly 10 percent of its budget by the end of the Sept. 30 fiscal year. The FAA said the decision would not compromise safety because those smaller airports only handle about one percent of commercial air traffic.
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CHICAGO, April 5- Early corn plantings will be delayed in the drought-stricken U.S.
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WICHITA, Kan.-- A new clinic offering abortions and other women's medical services saw its first patient Thursday in the Wichita building where a slain Kansas abortion provider had practiced. "We have been working a long time, really hard to get this open to provide services to women in Wichita," said Kerry Townsend Jacob, the group's spokeswoman.
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TOPEKA, Kan.-- Legislation authorizing $1.5 billion in bonds to bolster the Kansas pension system for teachers and government workers has stalled in the state Senate, and one advocate said Wednesday that the bill is "dead in the water."
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TOPEKA, Kan.-- A deal that would further reduce income taxes in Kansas is unlikely before May, after lawmakers have fresh state revenue estimates, negotiators for the Kansas House and Senate said Wednesday. The sticking point is what to do about a 2010 sales tax increase that is set to expire July 1.
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CHICAGO, April 4- Cold and wet weather in the U.S. "Temperatures will remain cold and it definitely will keep soil temperatures low, so plantings will remain behind normal," said Don Keeney, a meteorologist for MDA Weather Services. Texas and southwest Oklahoma will remain dry, "Keeney said.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-- With Kansas as the reference point, Missouri business groups urged lawmakers to cut income taxes Tuesday while education officials expressed fears that reduced revenues could result in school funding cuts.
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*CVR Energy, HollyFrontier vulnerable to higher RIN costs. CVR Energy Inc and HollyFrontier Corp, inland refiners with limited capacity to blend biofuels into the pipeline, are suffering from a jolt to investor confidence while stocks of their coastal peers continue a two-year upward march.
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CHICAGO, April 2- U.S. farmers who tasted record-high prices for corn during last summer's historic drought are abandoning long-held selling strategies in hopes that the market serves up another rally.
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Subsoil moisture levels were short to very short across 81 percent of Kansas. The agency's weekly snapshot of winter wheat showed 29 percent of the Kansas crop rated in poor to very poor condition. KASS also said that just 13 percent of the Kansas winter wheat crop has jointed.
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Sam Brownback has signed legislation barring public employee unions in Kansas from deducting money from members' paychecks to help finance political activities. Opponents pointed out during legislative debate that union members in Kansas generally have to agree beforehand to any paycheck deductions.
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CHICAGO, April 2- Rainfall over the next two weeks in the U.S. "It will be good for the Plains but not so good for the Midwest," said Andy Karst, meteorologist for World Weather Inc.. Showers were expected to begin Tuesday and Wednesday in southern Kansas and Oklahoma, with additional rainfall anticipated in the Plains Saturday through early next week, he said.
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Creighton University economist Ernie Goss said the increase is encouraging because any score above 50 suggests growth. The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
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Sam Brownback said Thursday that Kansas' "budget reality" will push lawmakers toward approving his proposal to cancel a scheduled decrease in the state sales tax. The Republican governor said he'll consider "anybody's proposal" as the GOP- dominated House and Senate negotiate the final version of tax legislation.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-- The Missouri House pushed Thursday to reinstate a cap on certain damages in medical malpractice cases that the state Supreme Court struck down last summer.
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WICHITA, Kan.-- Kansas farmers are planting fewer acres of thirsty crops, such as corn and soybeans, this spring and more acres of drought-tolerant crops like sorghum, Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, March 28- U.S. corn inventories were larger than expected as of March 1, easing a near-term supply crunch ahead of a potentially record-setting crop that will be planted in coming weeks, the government said on Thursday.
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Plains and other parched areas of the United States, according to a report issued on Thursday. *Kansas, the top U.S. wheat-growing state, saw good improvement in drought conditions, as did neighboring Colorado. *Oklahoma and Texas both saw drought levels grow slightly worse in the prior week, but conditions are still vastly improved from the last several months.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-- A trio of measures that could reduce taxes for some businesses won approval Wednesday in the Missouri House, as lawmakers continued pushing to keep pace with recent tax breaks in Kansas and other neighboring states. One of the bills would cut income taxes for thousands of corporations in Missouri.