July 2022

Years after nixing a deal with Tyson, this small Kansas town is still growing

KCUR | By Joel Mathis ksnewsservice.org TONGANOXIE — In 2017, after Kansas and Leavenworth County officials a big deal economic development deal to bring a big new Tyson chicken processing plant with hundreds of jobs to Tonganoxie, it took about two weeks for the deal to sour. The people of the town rejected the plant, and Tyson went looking elsewhere.

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