May 2023

Independent investigators paint a very different picture from what oil company TC Energy has said publicly about events that led to the Keystone pipeline’s biggest oil spill ever. Their report says, for instance, that the company dug up the section of pipe nearly a decade before it burst because it knew the pipe had warped.

TOPEKA — Kansas State Board of Education member Betty Arnold endorsed the goal of expanding the number and quality of educators working in K-12 public school classrooms. “One of the things that really sticks with me are the obstacles … that tend to decrease the interest in that profession.

Sometimes I will have a sample of lawn grass come into the office or an email picture showing poor growth of the lawn. It’s not disease or insect but the growth just doesn’t look normal. This could be thatch. Thatch control for cool-season lawn grasses such as bluegrass and tall fescue is usually done in the fall but now is the time we should perform this operation for warm-season turfgrasses such as bermudagrass and zoysiagrass. Because these operations thin the lawn, they should be performed when the lawn is in the best position to recover. For warm-season grasses that time is June through July. BufFalograss, our other common warm-season grass, normally does not need to be dethatched.

Month after month without enough rain has made Kansas the epicenter of a stubborn drought covering parts of the Great Plains. While the drought that plagued almost the entire western half of the U.S.

John Van Meter stepped to the podium for public comment May 23 at the Newton City Commission meeting and he wanted to speak for a few minutes about water rates in Newton. Unlike speakers who spent months railing on the city for an increase that was approved for next year, Van Meter wanted to suggest a change to how the city bills and works with customers.

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly urged congressional leaders to support production of the F-35 fighter jet associated with three dozen manufacturing suppliers in Kansas and linked to nearly 5,000 jobs in the state.