Water contamination invades Augusta community
An old issue continues to spread in a Southwest Augusta community.
Chad Frey
Kansas Teacher Supply Continues to Fall
The office of the Kansas Board of Regents released an annual accounting of student enrollments in Kansas teacher education programs and numbers of students who completed programs that lead to teacher certification.
Politics is a profession worth paying for
Last week, a bipartisan commission of former state lawmakers finished working on and recommended a solution to a long-standing problem: Kansas’s terrible legislative pay scale.Currently our state legislature, which is officially supposed to meet for only about 90 days—but which actually often involves much more work than that, frequently spread throughout the whole year—pays its members a base salary of only $27,000.
Electricity: Cooperation and Competition Are Better Than Government Monopolies
In June, Florida’s legislature passed (and governor Ron DeSantis signed) a bill transferring control of Gainesville Regional Utilities from the city’s government to the state’s.
Kansas profiles: NASA spending time on the farm
The scientists from NASA are studying the landscape closely.
Bethel organ recital to feature seven alumni and their teachers
Bethel College kicks off its 2023-24 Organ Recital Series with a special concert at Fall Festival.The recital is at 2:30 p.m.
Expanding Medicaid in Kansas would strengthen families like mine
For more than a decade, we have worked tirelessly to persuade our state legislators to expand Medicaid and help the tens of thousands of hardworking Kansans like me who find themselves in the health insurance gap.I’m tired of waiting.
Sheriff: Fentanyl crisis not her, yet
In some places deaths from the drug Fentanyl have been rising quickly, and called epidemic.
In Brief
Planning commission to host renewable energy hearingThe Harvey County Planning and Zoning Advisory Board and Board of Zoning Appeals will meet at 7 p.m Oct.
Education agenda: Here’s what Kansas lawmakers have in mind for school districts and students
When Kansas lawmakers convene at the Statehouse in January, their to-do list could include several measures that would affect public school districts and students.A special committee on education, chaired by Republican Rep.