President Joe Biden unveiled plans Monday to allocate $1 billion in federal money to increasing competition in the meatpacking industry. “Without meaningful competition, farmers and ranchers don’t get to choose who they sell to,” Biden said.
A coalition of community groups demanded Monday that a special prosecutor be appointed in the case of a Black youth who died following a physical struggle with staff at a Kansas juvenile center. In a Wichita rally and letter to local officials, community activists also called for the release of video and the names of the individuals involved in the death of 17-year-old Cedric Lofton.
The line between what constitutes a movie and a TV show was already blurry before the pandemic nearly erased it. As CO- VID-19 restrictions have eased some of the delineation has returned. Look, sorry, but Steven Spielberg wasn’t going to premiere “West Side Story” on your iPhone. But straight up made-for-TV series have been proliferating for a while now. Call it Peak TV, call it Another Golden Age, call it whatever you want. As long as you call it a lot. Too much, really, for one person to sift through. With unmanageable volume in mind, here’s a short list of shows we’re looking forward to in 2022, both new and returning. Complete? Hardly. Just intriguing. Note: Premiere dates aren’t available for all series, so be sure to check listings.
“Better Off Dead” by Lee Child, Andrew Child (Delacorte) Jack Reacher fans have a lot to be happy about these days. Lee Child and his brother, Andrew Child, have released the 26th novel in the series.
TOPEKA — Testing confirmed emergence in Kansas of more than 10,000 cases of the Delta variant of CO- VID-19 and documented 25 instances of the Omicron mutation, while public health reports showed more than 1,000 hospitalizations and 250 fatalities linked to the virus so far in December.
The legendary Oakland Raider quarterback, Ken Stabler, once told me a story about John Madden when I was researching a book about Stabler’s life. In many ways, it was emblematic of who Madden was. The story went like this. It was the late 1970s and the NFL was a vastly different game than the polished, high-tech product now. It was larger than life, full of personalities, and Madden, even then, was one of the more outsized ones.e was brilliant and funny and respected, things all immensely difficult to pull off simultaneously, but somehow Madden did, and would go on to do it once he entered the television booth. Stabler said one of the first times he met Madden, the coach told him: You’ll get a fair shot from me. You’ll get support from me. All I care about is that you’re on time, pay attention and play hard. You can party but don’t let it get in the way of your job. You trust me, and I’ll trust you.
Recovering from recent intense storms and fires has placed a stranglehold on many in agriculture. On Dec. 15, Kansans watched as a derecho, an intense, widespread and fast-moving storm, rolled across the prairie.
Kansas county health officers continue to leave their jobs in significant numbers after losing the power they formerly had to take any steps necessary to slow the spread of outbreaks of disease, says soon-to-retire public health official Gianfranco Pezzino.
Kyrie Irving is a step closer to making his season debut. The Eastern Conference-leading Brooklyn Nets announced Tuesday that Irving, along with Kevin Durant and La-Marcus Aldridge, have cleared the NBA’s health and safety protocols – a major step toward getting them back on the court.
Kansas State announced Wednesday morning that its Wednesday night home basketball game at Bramlage Coliseum has been canceled because of COVID-19 issues within the North Florida basketball program. The game will not be rescheduled and fans who bought tickets for the game will receive additional information via email from the K-State Athletics ticket office.