Kansas Profile: Growing alpacas
Here’s a riddle: What will I do to keep warm when it gets cold on a long trip?Answer: Al-pac-a sweater.
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U.S. House Republicans target ‘explicit’ books in school libraries
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats on the U.S.
Most Kansans support expanding Medicaid, abortion rights, new survey finds
A significant majority of Kansans support expanding Medicaid — including more than half of Republicans — according to the 2023 Kansas Speaks public opinion survey conducted by the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University.The yearly, statewide poll tracks residents’ feelings about key public policy issues, from medical marijuana to housing to renewable energy.When it comes to Medicaid expansion and abortion, it found that Kansans’ views largely do not reflect recent actions by the Kansas Legislature.Medicaid expansionAround 70% of Kansans said they support or strongly support expanding Medicaid, which is relatively consistent with findings from previous years.That includes a majority of respondents from each political party.
Why one Kansas woman became a liver donor — and what she gained in the process
JOHNSON CITY — For Lindsee Wilson, it started with a Facebook post.
At the market
The Newton Farm and Art Market, a farmer’s market in the parking lot in the 100 block of East Sixth street, hosted a “Motorsickle and Bike Show” on Oct.
Kansas organizations lobby to restrain use of eminent domain on solar, wind projects
TOPEKA — Renewable energy pessimist Virginia Crossland-Macha urged a special legislative committee to build support for changing Kansas law to tip the scale in favor of property owners opposed to development of wind and solar generation projects and electricity transmission lines.Crossland-Macha, who leads Stand For The Land Kansas, focused much of her ire on NextEra Energy and NextEra Energy Transmission, which in May received a siting permit from the Kansas Corporation Commission to establish an 83-mile, 345-kilovolt transmission line in eastern Kansas.
A Kansas foster care agency says kids aren’t sleeping in offices anymore, but they aren’t in homes
TOPEKA — Foster care agency Cornerstones of Care hasn’t had a child sleep in one of its Kansas offices since January.On its surface, it’s a major victory for the foster care provider.
Kansas’ brain waiver helps with life-altering injuries. Now advocates say the process is stuck.
Rachel MiproKansas Reflector Since increased program eligibility began, Medicaid-funded waiver has experienced a boom in users Twenty-six-year-old Jonah Wagner can now operate a light switch… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close
The Kansas Wildlife department grew its own mussels. Now, it’s putting them back where they belong.
Stocking the state’s waters with protected mussel species is a new conservation strategy from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.This fall, the state released thousands of mussels grown in fish hatcheries into two southeast Kansas rivers that are struggling to maintain healthy shellfish populations.“The goal is to slowly work across both watersheds to get those populations reestablished and delisted from the state and federal endangered species act,” said Trevor Starks, a species recovery coordinator with Wildlife and Parks.The state stocked the Marmaton River with 7,175 Fatmucket mussels – a species that’s considered in need of conservation in Kansas.
Kansas Supreme Court: Wrongful conviction law applies to inmates at state prisons, county jails
TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion Friday declaring a Sumner County man could seek wrongful-conviction compensation despite a district court ruling he wasn’t eligible because the period of incarceration was in a county jail rather than a state prison.The Kansas Court of Appeals had reversed the conviction of Dameon Baumgarner in 2021 after he completed his sentence in Sumner County Jail for felony possession of a firearm.