KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is opening is refurbished Ancient Art Galleries featuring a 2,300-year-old coffin of an Egyptian noblewoman.
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Rep. Anthony Brown says the measure “denies benefits to those folks who can’t prove their status.”
A wide-ranging Senate debate on gambling Friday touched on smoking, slots at the Wichita Greyhound Park, nudity at casinos and whether there should even be a Sumner County casino.
Then, after six hours of debate, the Senate voted 19-20 to reject the bill.
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The law makes it a state crime, not just a federal one, to be in the U.S. illegally. It allows Arizona police to question people on their immigration status. People who cannot produce documents can be arrested, jailed and fined.
The law has been criticized by Democrats, civil rights groups and a growing number of Republicans. They fear it will lead to racial profiling, arguing the law targets anyone who is Hispanic or Latino.
TOPEKA | A bill authorizing Johnson County schools to raise more local property tax revenue – critical to holding together the coalition in favor of the sales tax hike – went down hard Monday in the Kansas House, 41-76.
The bill’s passage was key to Johnson County moderate’s support for a 1-cent sales tax hike, which itself is critical to a budget proposal that avoids new deep cuts to state services and education.
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WASHINGTON — What we’re seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state. This isn’t Greece’s problem alone, and that’s why its crisis has rattled global stock markets and threatens economic recovery. Virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect. Aging populations have been promised huge health and retirement benefits, which countries haven’t fully covered with taxes. The reckoning has arrived in Greece, but it awaits most wealthy societies.
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The confirmation process was changed radically, and probably irreversibly, in the late summer of 1987, when Democrats defeated President Reagan’s nomination of Robert Bork. It would be nice to turn down the temperature a bit in the coming confirmation debate. One way to do so is to accept two principles. First, the president is owed substantial deference for his choice. Second, substantial does not mean unlimited. The Framers in their wisdom gave the Senate a role to play in advising and consenting to nominees.
The entire political class needs to understand that the coming events transcend ideology and partisanship. The electoral wave of 2010 will have been preceded by the waves of 2006 and 2008. That will make three electoral waves in a row, affecting both parties and conservative and liberal politicians alike. The American people are sending the establishment a message: we’re angry at the way you are running our government; fix it or you’ll be next to go.
