Last week the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University published the results from the 2021 Kansas Speaks survey. For those not familiar with Kansas Speaks, it is an annual public opinion survey that gauges public opinion on various issues of interest to Kansas citizens, including public policy.
Do you remember Sam Brownback? Ordinary looking guy, happened to serve as Kansas governor for a couple of terms. He resigned in 2018 to become the Trump administration’s ambassador for religious freedom.
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Tuesday the Harvey County commission made a surprising, kind of, decision that may be a harbinger of things to come. They had a recommendation in front of them to keep a recycling program operating at the Harvey County Transfer Station operating for a time - allowing cities and county residents to make their own decisions about how to pay for said service.
Any resource taken for granted is a resource at risk of being lost. That is why the Kansas Ground Water Association, The Groundwater Foundation, and the National Ground Water Association will be joining hundreds of organizations across the country in celebrating National Groundwater Awareness Week, March 6-12. National Groundwater Awareness Week, now in its 23rd year, is an annual week of awareness, education, and advocacy focusing on one of the nation and state’s most precious resources.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) As people in the U.S. prepare to turn their clocks ahead one hour in mid-March, I find myself bracing for the annual ritual of media stories about the disruptions to daily routines caused by switching from standard time to daylight saving time.
Dear Doctors: My husband has always snored, but lately it’s gotten a lot worse. Would gaining weight have anything to do with it? He just turned 67 and put on about 12 pounds during the pandemic. Sometimes his breathing stops, and I’m worried it might be sleep apnea. How do we find out?
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine – How it’s impacting wheat in Kansas As he spends time in his wheat fields this week applying fertilizer to this year’s winter wheat crop, Kansas farmer Justin Knopf says there’s plenty on his mind, and heart. “Drought, high fertilizer prices and extreme market volatility are all cause for extra concern this year,” he said, “but thinking about the people of Ukraine has evoked a whole new layer of emotion.
Prior to any analysis of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, prior to the casting of blame and outrage — at Putin’s hubris, at NATO’s pernicious westward expansion over the last three decades — there’s this: