Westar Energy

Businesses charged fee for selling smoking paraphernalia

CJOnline / The Topeka Capital-Journal - Businesses charged fee for selling smoking paraphernalia As more shops here kick the habit of selling tobacco-smoking paraphernalia, a city-imposed licensing fee for such businesses is...

Ex-Westar CEO ordered to complete sentence

Kansas City, Mo. — A federal judge has denied a request from former Westar Energy Inc. CEO David Wittig to delay his return to prison for bank fraud while he asks the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. U.S. District Judge Julie...

Westar Energy sets quarterly dividend (AP)

Wednesday November 26, 1:58 pm ET Westar Energy declares regular quarterly dividend of 29 cents per share TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Electric utility Westar Energy Inc. said Wednesday its board declared a quarterly cash dividend of...

Planning for power

The telling item in Rep. Carl Holmes’ PowerPoint presentation wasn’t prominent. It was just a simple statement on the sixth slide of the chairman of the Kansas Electric Transmission Authority’s presentation at the Kansas Wind...

Just the Facts...

The Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) market remains pretty much closed down. Year-to-date total US ABS issuance of $129bn is running at 24% of comparable 2007. Home Equity ABS issuance of $351 million compares with 2007's $232bn ...

Fitch Rates WR's First Mortgage Bonds 'BBB+' (Business Wire)

NEW YORK----Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'BBB+' rating to Westar Energy, Inc.'s $300 million 8.625% First Mortgage Bonds due 2018. The FMBs were priced on Nov. 18, 2008 and are expected to close on Nov. 25, 2008.

A Heartening Upturn in Corporate Bonds

Stephen Taub - At least six companies raised $5.15 billion for the day, compared with $8.6 billion in new debt sold for all of last week, according to Thomson Reuters, and $10.6 billion for the previous week. It sold $3.5...

Study: Southwest Power Pool Project Would Save $2.8 Billion Annually

CRA International, Inc. is preparing a study about the economic benefits if approximately 1,200 miles of extra-high voltage transmission are built in the Southwest Power Pool. The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) manages the...

New Issue-Westar Energy sells $300 mln 10-yr in debt

Nov 18 (Reuters) - Kansas electric utility Westar Energy Inc on Tuesday sold $300 million in 10-year first mortgage bonds, said market sources. The size of the deal was increased from an originally planned $250 million....

Squirrels blamed for Kansas State power outage

MANHATTAN, Kan. | A couple of squirrels put Kansas State University in the dark for a few hours. The Manhattan campus was without electricity for more than three hours Monday. The university says power was cut when two...

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