March 2024

Nulik named next principal of NHS

In the search for a new principal for Newton High School USD 373 did not have to go far to find their next building administrator - just across town.March 22 the district announced the next principal of Newton High School will be Chad Nulik, current assistant principal at Chisholm Middle School.“It has always been one of my ambitions to run a high school and to help students develop into the last phase we have with them,” Nulik said.

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As county parks awaken for spring, shower house due for construction

Tradionally the big weekend in spring for the county parks is Memorial Day weekend - a weekend that signals the coming of summer.This weekend, however, might give Memorial Day weekend a run for the money is some ways for Harvey County Parks.Water and electricity has been turned on for the parks - but that is the least of what is signaling spring.

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Events calendar

March 23-24 “Spring is in the Air” Harvey County Lawn and Garden Show, Dyck Arboretum of the Plains, 177 W. Hickory Street. Admission $1 Saturday,… Login to continue reading Login…

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4 Kansas pharmacists are taking on the prescription drug industry, and their company is growing

After years of frustration with mega companies, a group of four Kansas pharmacists is working to change the pharmacy benefit manager trade from the inside out – by creating their own, different kind of pharmacy benefit manager called Oread Rx.Nate Rockers, owner of Rockers Pharmacy in Paola, Kansas, said the current pharmacy benefit manager situation is dire.“The industry has morphed away from what we think is the right practice, in an industry that is rife with opportunities for abuse,” Rockers said.The Kansas company formed in late 2018 is aimed at disrupting a multi-billion dollar industry where major companies decide how much people pay for drugs in their insurance plans, and critics say the pharmacy benefit managers are making big profits in the process while lacking transparency.To understand what is different about Oread, it helps to understand the complex business of pharmacy benefit managers, also known as PBMs.PBMs: the ‘middlemen’ of the pharmaceutical worldHealth policy expert Karen Van Nuys is the executive director of the University of California Shaeffer Center’s Value of Life Sciences Innovation, a research program aimed at transforming health care.Pharmacy benefit managers were created in the 1960s when insurance companies started offering prescription medication as a benefit.

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