Month: March 2022

For over a year, Kansans have been waiting for answers as to where the investigation into the natural gas price gouging crisis stands. Throughout that time, Attorney General Derek Schmidt has withheld details of the…

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Civilians trapped inside Mariupol desperately scrounged for food and fuel as Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the port city Thursday amid international condemnation over an airstrike a day earlier…

Paige Olson with Kansas Appleseed talked to the Allen County Multi-Agency Team (ACMAT) on March 1 about the advocacy work being done in Southeast Kansas to improve access to affordable food and safe, secure housing. …

Ryan Reza, president of the Kansas Young Democrats, left, and Iola native Allie Utley, vice president, discuss issues facing Kansans and young people in particular at a meeting of the Allen County Democrats on Wednesday…

Jerry L. Griffith of Lawrence passed away on Tuesday, March 8, 2022.  He was born on July 8, 1919, in Collinsville, Okla., to John A. Griffith and Elizabeth Driskell Griffith.  He was preceded in death…

Starting in July, RoDena Lloyd’s five children were lifted out of poverty by the Biden administration’s expansion of the child tax credit (CTC), which delivered cash infusions to families across America. But at the end…

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian airstrike devastated a maternity hospital Wednesday in the besieged port city of Mariupol and wounded at least 17 people, Ukrainian officials said, amid growing warnings from the West that…

TOPEKA — A Kansas Senate panel approved Tuesday legislation establishing an educational bill of rights for parents of public school children. The bill is aimed at the idea of educational transparency and ensuring parents have…

A Celtic harpist described as “a phenomenal harp player who can make her instrument ring with unparalleled purity” will visit Iola on Friday.  Maeve Gilchrist will perform at 7 p.m. Friday at the Creitz Recital…

Superintendents for schools near the Burlingame campus of Allen Community College had a surprising request: Let our kids attend in person.  ACC administrators including President John Masterson, Jon Marshall and Cynthia Jacobson met with the…