TOPEKA — Psychologist Shawna Wright said only four of the state’s 105 counties have enough behavioral health professionals to meet demands of the population, and that shortage contributes to looping of mentally ill people in and out of the criminal justice system.
TOPEKA — U.S. Sens. Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran celebrated Monday unanimous adoption by the Senate of legislation commemorating work in all communities that contributed to the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring unconstitutional the “separate but equal” educational system.
CLARKSON VALLEY, Mo. — When the pediatrician recommended Lisa Pascoe have her then-toddler tested for lead poisoning, she thought there was no way he could be at risk. Everything in her South St. Louis home had been remodeled.
TOPEKA — A massive rock of cultural and spiritual significance to the Kaw Nation moved from Tecumseh to Lawrence nearly a century ago to honor the city’s settlers will be relocated to tribal land near Council Grove with a $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Jews in war-torn Ukraine as well as those fleeing the country are getting ready to celebrate Passover on Friday. The holiday marks the exodus of enslaved Jews led by Moses from Egypt to Israel. The Passover story is playing out in real time in the lives of Ukrainian Jews as many leave their homes. Organizations such as Chabad, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Center and the Jewish Federations of North America are holding Seders in person and online in Ukraine, neighboring countries, Western Europe and Israel. They are also helping procure matzah, grape juice and other Passover foods to fill holiday tables during a time of acute food shortage. “Good morning! Happy morning!” Rabbi Avraham Wolff exclaimed, with a big smile, as he walked into the Chabad synagogue in Odesa on a recent morning. Russian missiles had just struck an oil refinery in the Ukrainian city, turning the sky charcoal gray. Hundreds were lining up outside his synagogue hoping to receive a kilo of matzah each for their Passover dinner tables. The unleavened flatbread, imperative at the ritual meal known as a Seder, is now hard to find in war-torn Ukraine amid the war and a crippling food shortage.
About 9,000 fans experienced a roller coaster Monday night inside Phog Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, where the University of Kansas hosted a watch party for the NCAA men’s basketball championship game in New Orleans.
In the state of Kansas, COVID-19 response is changing - from pandemic to endemic. March 31 Governor Laura Kelly and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced pivoting from “emergency pandemic response” to “endemic normalcy.” “Kansas is continuing the transition to a new phase of understanding and living with COVID-19,” Governor Laura Kelly said.
MCPHERSON – In June of 2021, McPherson USD 418 presented for public vote a sizable bond issue, something which the people of McPherson voted on and sent the administrators and school board a strong message of displeasure regarding the cost and look of the bond issue when they voted it down.
CANTON – The mindset of one of the newest members of an administrative staff at one of the McPherson County’s outstanding school districts is an individual whose number one goal is to create a workplace for which people will want to stay working in.
Duane and Jennifer Wahrman of Pratt own two trucking companies, a homebased hauling service called D & J Fluid Service, LLC and an over-the-road long haul company simply called D&J Trucking, LLC. Their businesses, as well as their personal lives, have been greatly affected by national policies in the past two years. Last month they joined the People’s Convoy of truckers, driving to Washington, D.C. in protest of the continued enactment of the federal emergency powers act.