Daily Archives: March 8, 2007

Big surprise — Sedgwick County doesn’t have seat at gaming table

March 8, 200712:02 p.m.

The Legislature will begin debate Friday on some expanded gaming bills that, you guessed it, mostly exclude Sedgwick County. One would allow casinos only in the Kansas City and Pittsburg areas. Another bill would allow gambling at casinos and racetracks in Wyandotte, Crawford and Cherokee counties and, for five years, limit new gambling in Sedgwick and Ford counties to slot machines at racetracks.
If that happens, our editorialtoday argues, it will confirm that the only Wichita-area voices being heard on this issue in Topeka are coming from the anti-gambling members of our legislative delegation.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

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Why stop with language?

March 8, 200711:58 a.m.

"There is no need for this Legislature to declare an ‘official’ language for the state of Kansas, any more than there is any need for this Legislature to declare an ‘official’ race or an ‘official’ skin color for the state of Kansas."
– Phillip Delatorre, a University of Kansas law professor, testifying Wednesday to the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee
Posted by Rhonda Holman

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Open thread

March 8, 20071:04 a.m.

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