A Kansas commission is recommending a nearly 50% increase to state lawmaker pay to provide them a fairer wage.The bipartisan Legislative Compensation Committee on Thursday unanimously voted to recommend a proposal that calls for raising lawmaker pay from an average compensation of $29,000 to an annual salary of $43,000.
TOPEKA — The Kansas prison system has fired two employees and disciplined six others for mistreating an injured inmate last month.According to inmates at the Topeka Correctional Facility, Elizabeth Wince spent two hours crawling back to her cell after hurting herself.Wince fell and tried to seek medical treatment, but was denied.
How I long for the days when Republicans elected to public office in Kansas were sane — as in approachable, willing to listen and discuss alternative perspectives, willing to compromise so that everyone got a little something.I was a registered Republican for years.
Last month WalletHub released its list of “Best and Worst Cities for Women”, ranking 182 large cities across the country.Two Kansas cities — Wichita and Overland Park — made the rankings along with Kansas City, MO.Though their positions couldn’t be more drastically different.Overland Park ranked 8th in the country for best cities for women while Wichita ranked 149th.
End the wait listGovernor Kelly and those clamoring to expand KanCare/Medicaid to cover able bodied working Kansans need to stop doing so until she has ended the wait list for the almost 7,500 I/DD and PD Kansans that continue to languish while waiting for crucially needed services that they’ve already qualified for.The wait list for Intellectually/Developmentally Disabled and Physically Disabled Kansans is now over 11 years long and is now at an all-time high of 5,096 I/DD and 2,381 PD Kansans.
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“Fewer than 26% of US households still have someone working remotely at least one day a week,” Bloomberg reports, “a sharp decline from the early-2021 peak of 37%,” citing US Census Bureau statistics.
As promised in my last column, here are some of the flaws in “J.
When the Newton High School football team took the field at Riverfront Stadium on Oct.
There’s no irony lost on Lori Kessler, Healthy Harvey Coalition Coordinator for the Harvey County Health Department, that she and the health department are launching a county-wide book club to read a book titled “13 Ways to Kill Your Community.”“It is a very interesting title, it is eye catching,” Kessler said.She said the book is a bit of reverse psychology, written with a sense of humor.