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Friday, February 9. 1990 / University Daily Kansan
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Senate approves tobacco tax could be snuffed by House
A tobacco tax bill cleared its first hurdle Wednesday, gaining Senate approval and heading for an expected cold reception in the House.
The bill, introduced last month by State Sen. Dick Bond, R-Overland Park and others, would tax sales tax on cigarettes and a 5 percent tax on other tobacco products.
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The bill would raise about $12 million for higher education. Originally the bill earmarked $8 million for the Margin of Excellence, but Bond amended the bill, directing all
of the funds to higher education in general.
The Margin is the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers.
The Regents requested $16.3 million for the final year of the Margin, but Gov. Mike Hayden's proposed budget did not allocate the funds.
The Senate approved the measure by a vote of 26 to 13. But a cooler reception is expected in the House.
"The House has never been as supportive as the Senate on higher education," said State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, co-sponsor State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, agreed. But he attributed the possible House reluctance to the state's financial difficulties.
"The problem is that there simply isn't enough money in the general fund to do the job that is demanded of it," he said. "Any hopes of funding the Margin of Excellence have simply evaporated due to the fiscal situation."
News executive gets White award
Batten extols value of communities
James K. Batten is the 41st recipient of the White citation.
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By Sandra Moran Kansan staff writer
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Community involvement and the role of the community newspaper are important to the livelihood of the press, news executive James Batten said yesterday.
Batten spoke to about 150 journalists, students and educators in the Kansas Union Ballroom, where he accepted the 1990 National Citation Award of the William Allen White Foundation.
"Newspapers that immerse themselves in the community have the best chance for success in the future," Batten said. "In this age of hyper-mobility, there is something to be said for citizens and journalists who sink their roots into the community."
Batten, 54, is chief executive officer and board chairman of Knight-Ridder Inc., an international news organization based in Miami. He has worked for the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer and the Detroit Free Press.
"We have known for a long time from common sense and increasingly from research that people who feel strongly connected to their communities are much more likely to be good newspaper readers." Batten said.
lenge to the news leaders of the 1990s.
He said this was not the way it had to be, and he issued a chal-
"If we can help revitalize our communities by cracking through the apathy and indifference, we keep the faith," he said.
The problem, he said, was that evidence showed that people are less interested in their communities. This means less interest in the role of the newspaper.
Batten said that too many newspapers were not well-positioned to encourage community spirit among readers because they were disconnected from their communities.
"Out of our manic concern about being compromised, we sometimes piously keep the community at arm's length," he said. "We come off as distant and unfelting, better at criticizing than celebrating, better attacking than healing."
There is no simple answer, he said.
Batten was the 40th recipient of the National Citation Award. Other recent recipients include CBS newsman Charles Kuralt, syndicated columnist Paul Greenberg and White House correspondent Helen Thomas.
Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism, said Batten was chosen by members of the trustee committee for the foundation because he represented and upheld the ideals of William Allen White.
White, known as the Sage of Emporia, was editor of the Emporia Gazette and was a nationally known journalist.
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