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Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, and Sedgwick County Commissioner Dave Unruh assess tornado damage in Wichita on April 16. The National Weather Service estimates the tornado that hit Wichita on April 14 was an EF-3 with maximum wind speeds of 165 miles per hour. Submitted photo Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com Emergency and state officials on Monday toured [...]
Mary Lou Peter K-State Research and Extension Given recent historic highs in cattle prices, it shouldn’t have been surprising to see values dip somewhat during March, but consumer response to news of lean, finely textured beef in the nation’s meat supply hit cattle and beef values harder than many could have anticipated, according to a [...]
Submitted photo More than seventy members of the 129th Transportation Company were welcomed home at New Century AirCenter last week. Hundreds of family and friends greeted the soldiers as they arrived on charter busses. The company spent the last nine months deployed in northern Iraq and Kuwait. Submitted photo
Mark Taylor mtaylor@gardnernews.com State budget shortfalls will result in the temporary shuttering of courtrooms, Johnson County Commissioners were told April 5. The Kansas Supreme Court announced this week that all district and appellate courts will be closed on April 13, April 27, May 11, May 25 and June 8. Chief Justice Lawton R. Nuss said [...]
Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com The Kansas Supreme Court will furlough workers due to a budget impasse in the state legislature. Chief Justice Lawton R. Nuss said the court will shutter for five days, because legislators failed to approve a $1.4 million supplemental appropriation for the judicial branch. Although House and Senate negotiators agreed to the supplement, [...]
Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com Gov. Sam Brownback may have a beef with signs in a local grocery store. The signs alert customers that the store’s beef does not contain an additive called “pink slime,” also known as Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB). Brownback, in a statement with governors of three other states, is urging retailers to [...]
It isn’t just one lucky Kansan who hit won millions in the Mega Millions Lottery last week. The state of Kansas is set to receive a windfall as well. Three winning tickets for the largest jackpot in U.S. history were sold, and one of those was in Kansas. The three winning ticket holders will split [...]
Danedri Thompson dthompson@gardnernews.com A political group said it has filed campaign violation complaints with the Kansas Ethics Commission and with the Johnson County Election Commissioner related to municipal elections in Shawnee and Mission. The group, Coalition for Better Cities (CBC), lists three possible campaign violations – two in Shawnee and one in Mission. Citizens in [...]
Kansans likely would face higher sales and property taxes if the state legislature moves forward with efforts to eliminate the state income tax, according to a report released today by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a non-partisan policy research organization based in Washington, DC. Elimination of the state income tax also would undermine [...]
Mark Taylor mtaylor@gardnernews.com A new interchange at Interstate 35 and Homestead Lane is one step closer to reality. Officials from the city of Edgerton, Johnson County and Kansas Department of Transportation gathered at the site of the future diverging diamond interchange to break ground on the project. The interchange will primarily serve the BNSF intermodal [...]
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