Community dinner served
For the 28th year, the Community Thanksgiving Dinner committee and a host of volunteers served a traditional thanksgiving m Nov.
November 2023
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Kansas clergy place faith in state legislators embracing ‘moral truth’ of Medicaid expansion
LENEXA — Monsignor Stuart Swetland wants conversation about right to life in Kansas to encompass the reality of people suffering from inadequate access to preventative health care and prematurely dying due to lack of treatment for serious ailments.Swetland, president of Donnelly College in Kansas City, Kansas, and pastor of Our Lady and Saint Rose Catholic Church, said expanding eligibility for Medicaid to as many as 150,000 working poor in Kansas would be “the pro-life thing to do.” Expansion wouldn’t solve Kansas’ shortcomings in delivery of life-saving care to the needy, he said, but would be a step toward addressing moral truth.“Catholics believe that adequate health care is a right for everyone, not a privilege for the affluent,” said Swetland, a registered Republican.
‘Tis the Season of Kindness
“’Tis the Season of Kindness 2023 Advent in Harvey County,” a project of Rebecca Barrett-Fox, PhD, Director of Online Learning and Digital Pedagogy at Hesston College and Andrea Braker, owner of Community Creative Services.Traditionally an Advent Calendar has been used by children to count down the days of Christmas.
Prairie Doc Perspective: Medicare Advantage
TV is flooded these days with commercials encouraging everyone to sign up for Medicare Advantage(MA).
State funding set aside for Kansas River trash removal, high-risk dam repairs
TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Agriculture gives a dam.The department has been allocated $10 million in funding for several state water projects, including dam rehabilitation and repair and irrigation technology improvements.About $7 million of the funding will go toward projects in eastern Stafford County, where the Rattlesnake Creek and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge have struggled with water flow.The Quivira National Wildlife Refuge, which provides shelter for hundreds of migratory bird species, is home to inland marshes that rely on water from Rattlesnake Creek.
Centuries-old forests in the Midwest are struggling. Fire can help save them
DOUGLAS COUNTY – In the Baldwin Woods Forest Preserve south of Lawrence, stately oaks and hickories rise 50 to 100 feet into the air.But far below their canopy, something worries scientists.
Myth of the “Scientific Method”
Supposedly there is a method all scientists use to make new discoveries consisting of: observation, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and results.
Being thankful for kansas’s urban farming revolution
While over 80% of the land area across Kansas qualifies as rural, the population of our state—which is mostly concentrated in about 10 of the state’s 105 counties--is increasingly urban, something which geographers and political leaders and others have been aware of for decades.This urban-rural divide creates all sorts of long-term problems, especially since the state as whole is growing very slowly, both economically and in terms of population, meaning that even as Kansans gradually become more urban and more diverse, patterns of rural conservatism nonetheless continue to dominate our politics.But there are upsides to the pervasiveness of Kansas’s rural self-understanding.
New mural to be dedicated
Newton’s latest downtown mural took will be diedicated at 4 p.m.