HAYS — The COVID-19 pandemic hit air travel hard. The number of canceled flights skyrocketed, airlines hemorrhaged billions in losses and a lack of passengers turned once-bustling airports into ghost towns.
Students and teachers told U.S. House members during a Thursday hearing that their right to talk about race and LGBTQ+ issues in public schools is being silenced due to an onslaught of new state laws as well as pressure on school boards from right-wing advocates. “To be crystal clear,
TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court waded through more than a decade of complex procedural history and an enormous evidentiary record Friday to reverse the Kansas Court of Appeals by answering a simple-sounding question of where businessman Gene Bicknell resided for tax purposes in 2005 and 2006.
FROM ANDREWS MCMEEL SYDear Doctors: Can you help with a debate my wife and I are having about good balance? I say it’s about staying strong and flexible. She thinks it has to do with your inner ear. We’re arguing about this because her dad, who is 75 and in good health, has started to worry about balance.
Newton:Donald B. Sooby, 77, died Tuesday (May 17, 2022) at his home in Newton.
LENEXA – Newton junior Madison Horton reached the consolation finals in two events Friday and Saturday at the Class 5-4-3-2-1A State Swimming and Diving Championships at the Shawnee Mission District Aquatic Center.
Friday At Emporia Top four to state, top six score. Scorers and Newton results GIRLS Team scores — Great Bend 151.5, Salina Central 86, Hays 60.5, Topeka Seaman 58, Salina South 57, Topeka West 52.5, Newton 47, Valley Center 37.5, Emporia 8.
Class 3A Regionals Friday at Cheney Top four qualify for state, top six score GIRLS Team scores — Cheney 106, Hesston 64, Cimarron 50.5, Kingman 49, Nickerson 48, Lakin 47, Hugoton 40, Chaparral 27, Halstead 22, Holcomb 21, Wichita Trinity Academy 21, Haven 18, Douglass 18, Council Grove 10.5, Wichita Collegiate 10, Southwestern Heights 6. 100-m.
Should Kansas ban abortion, politicians in Topeka will have some hefty policy decisions to make. “Banning abortion” sounds simple, but realistically that involves choices about penalties, enforcement, and money.
When ethanol became a gasoline additive in the U.S., botany colleagues told me it took as much energy to plant, grow and distill the corn as we produced in product. While the efficiency of ethanol extraction has since improved, the cost of our corn ethanol policy measured in other forms of damage seriously questions our continued usage of this additive. This fuller analysis is detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) released earlier this year.