Tag: Kansas

Kansas has dropped its effort to terminate Planned Parenthood’s participation in Medicaid, ending a three-year-long court battle that the state lost at every turn. The change in policy wasn’t announced publicly but rather came in…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Lawyers for Kansas told the state Supreme Court on Monday that it should sign off on a new law boosting spending on public schools and end a protracted education funding lawsuit…

Can you count the ways agriculture touches your life? When you wake up in the morning, you are lying on cotton sheets. You swing your feet onto the floor either made of wood, a rug…

Edward P. Marquis, Iola meat packer, was presented the 1964 Kansas Meat Packer of the Year award at the meat packers convention yesterday at Emporia. Marquis is president and general manager of the M&M Packing…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Soggy fields may be slowing the planting of corn this season in Kansas. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that about 6% of the corn seed has been put in…

The people of Kansas need Medicaid expansion to increase access to care to mental health or substance use treatment.  Not only for economic development; not only for delaying inevitable closures or consolidations of health care…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Child welfare advocates in Kansas who spent more than a year examining the state’s troubled foster care system are frustrated with what they see as the Legislature’s lack of action on…

Carlyle Presbyterian Church Pastor Steve Traw’s message was “Our God of Tomorrow,” taken from Luke 2:21-35. Myrna Wildeschuetz played “Never Alone” for the prelude and Rita Sanders played “The Lord’s Prayer” for the offertory. Rex…

Assessment tests measure academic progress but they mean much more than numbers, state and local education leaders told Lincoln Elementary School students Thursday. The school was recognized with a “Challenge Award” from the Kansas Confidence…

70 Years Ago April 1949 Thomas H. Bowlus, president of Allen County State Bank, today is quietly celebrating the completion of 50 years of service as city treasurer. During that half century he has helped…