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Safe Streets, a coalition focused on preventing drug-related harms based in Wichita, applied for the state settlement funds.As millions of dollars flow into the state of Kansas from opioid settlement funds, local and statewide groups are vying for that money to address the growing opioid crisis in their communities.The money is part of national legal settlements against prescription opioid makers, distributors and pharmacies.
TOPEKA — Armed with beaded bracelets and signs, a coalition of sexual abuse survivors returned Wednesday to the Statehouse to push for changes in state law that would allow them to file civil lawsuits at any age.Survivors Kim Bergman and Tess Ramirez posted at a table in the front entrance of the Capitol, pointing to younger images of themselves juxtaposed with their abuser as they argued for more accountability measures.Bergman said some lawmakers thought the issue had been taken care of in the last legislative session.“If you already voted for it, thinking that you did it all, we might as well just finish it up and get it done this year,” Bergman said.Their group, which has been advocating for changes for more than five years, worked with lawmakers last legislative session on a law that removed the statute of limitations on criminal prosecution.
TOPEKA — Republican legislators will guard against communist China espionage, provide tax cuts and eliminate wait times for disability services, House Speaker Dan Hawkins said in a rebuttal to Democratic Gov.
“The ladies of Longton,” say press reports from Elk County in 1876, “are making preparations to hold a Grand Leap Year Ball on Monday evening, February 14.
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It’s customary for op-ed columns to hang themselves on “news hooks” -- the things you’re already reading about that just happened, are happening, or may be about to happen.
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