CBS Moves Morning Show To Devastated Town NEW YORK -- While the "Today" show's globetrotting Matt Lauer has touched down in Argentina, Holland and Laos, his rivals at CBS are spending the week in Kansas.   "The Early Show" has sent hosts Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez, news anchor Russ Mitchell and weatherman Dave Price to Greensburg, the small town nearly wiped off the map by a tornado that killed 11 pe...

House Fails To Override Veto Of Coal Bill After Two Hours of Pressure, Vote Falls Four Shy of Needed Two-Thirds   After two hours of leaders pressuring lawmakers to override, the Kansas House on Thursday night sustained the governor's veto of a bill to permit two coal-fired power plants.   The 80-45 attempt was four votes shy of the 84 needed for the required two-thirds majority of members to overri...

Westar Wants Job Of Building Out West With more wind farms dotting western Kansas, Westar Energy wants state regulators to scrap another transmission company's bid to build lines into southwest Kansas and let it do it.   A Westar official said Thursday the company is interested in building its own transmission out west. To do so, it filed last Friday to intervene in a case that ITC Great Plains has pend...

Construction Of Biomass Plant To Start In June Construction of a renewable biomass energy plant near Healy is scheduled to start in mid June, with processing set to begin in September.   Officials with Prairie Fire BioEnergy, a farmer-producer-supplier cooperative with 86 producer/owner members, are in the final planning stage, securing necessary permits and purchasing construction material for the project. The...

Farm Bill Deal Could Cut Programs WASHINGTON -- Kansas officials are concerned about a tentative deal on a new farm bill that boosts nutrition programs at the expense of crop subsidies.   Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, says the proposed cuts are not favorable to Kansas farmers who rely on safety net programs.   "Funding is being redirected out of programs that support producers and into nonagr...

Wind Progress at Standstill GOODLAND -- While there's a flurry of activity going on around the coal-fired power plant and its companion ethanol plant, there's virtually nothing happening on the wind farm proposed near Goodland.   And there's little information being passed between the wind developer and the city of Goodland, which is all but on the hook to purchase power from Renewable Energy...

Looking For Space to Expand GOODLAND -- It's a building filled with historical artifacts that simply couldn't be replaced.   But space is perhaps the most valuable commodity right now at the High Plains Museum in Goodland.   That's why the museum, its board and commissioners from the city of Goodland and Sherman County are looking into the prospects of purchasing the three-story Antiq...

Chamber Hires New President The Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday that it has hired a replacement for chamber president Carol Meyer, who is retiring.   D. Paul Joseph, the former community development director for the city of Highland, Ill., accepted the position Monday and will start May 5, according to the chamber.   Joseph's experience includes graduating from ...

Studying the Impact of Immigration There are a few pages in Aki Katsura's economics textbook that discuss how immigration can affect his field of study.   But that's not much compared to the information received and ideas discussed over the weekend at an economics symposium hosted by Garden City Community College, said Katsura, a Japanese immigrant who attends Coffeyville Community College.  ...