Dear Doctors: I have read that older adults may not get enough vitamin D in winter. My father-in-law is 73 years old. He’s from Florida, but he’s spending a year with us here in Maine. He can’t be outdoors all the time like he is at home. How important is vitamin D? How do we know if he’s getting enough?
Governor Laura Kelly started stumping Thursday for what she calls an ‘Axing Your Taxes’ package introduced in the Kansas House and Senate. It’s three parts, and there is a really good chance there is something in that package for you.
Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of columns by Lance Gormley looking at the Newton utility bill, or “water bill”. Upcoming topics include sewer, trash, the PUF, and conclusions.
Former US president Donald Trump supposedly absconded from the White House with reams of classified documents, stored them at his Mara- Lago home, responded first lackadaisically then combatively when called upon to hand them back over, finally resorting to weird claims about having declassified those documents by “thinking about it.”
Food prices have risen an astronomical 12% over the past year. Many Kansans are juggling high food costs with other bills impacted by high inflation. Bringing down costs for all Kansans should be a priority.
Kansas Farm Bureau had a good 2022 as evidenced by the Pinnacle and New Horizon awards it received at the American Farm Bureau’s 104th convention recently. The Pinnacle award is the highest honor a state Farm Bureau can earn for program and membership achievement. KFB received the New Horizon award, which highlights innovative new programs, for the Casten Fellows Program, developed to honor the life of staffer Jill Casten-Downing through leadership development and international travel.
Question for legislators I have questions for our state Republican legislators: Have you ever been in a position in which a desired benefit to you was dependent upon someone else’s decision? Conversely, have you ever been in a position to grant a benefit of significant value to someone else, but intentionally chose to withhold it? While these may sound theoretical, this is the situation facing about 150,000 low income Kansans who would benefit from an expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program. This could remove the dread of the devastation of a medical emergency, accident or illness for which there was no payment available.
More than 60 years ago, as many are aware, civil rights activists began organizing to desegregate businesses in Birmingham, Alabama. By the spring of 1963, tensions were at a boiling point due to a series of sit-ins, boycotts, and demonstrations designed to draw attention to racial injustices in the city.
“You are the only teacher I have ever known who has asked for more students,” replied the headmaster. It was the week before classes were to start at the international school in Hong Kong. My biology classroom had 30 student seats in the room, facing a blackboard. Back beyond their seats was a biology laboratory with 30 lab stools around lab islands with sinks. No wall separated what would normally have been two separate rooms. It was a design that allowed me to move directly from explaining a concept to students doing lab work involving that concept.
Kansas’s rural identity is struggling. Partly this is because it’s not entirely accurate.