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King Midas plays Lindsborg Sept. 21
LINDSBORG, Kan. — The twenty-first night of September holds memories yet to be made. King Midas and the Muflers will once again fill the night air with classic tunes for your dancing and listening pleasure. Kick back and chase the clouds away or dance till the stars steal the night away. (This paragraph is brought to you with a heavy nod to Earth, Wind & Fire's song September.)
Kan. church group home safely thanks to KHP, Abilene tire shop
DICKINSON COUNTY —A Salina church group is safely home after the assistance of the Kansas Highway Patrol and a tire shop in Abilene. According to a social media report, "KHP Trooper Mullins encountered a situation that reminds us all of the importance of being prepared. Just before 8:30a.m. Monday,...
Law enforcement on safety corridors: More than just tickets
The Kansas Department of Transportation and the Drive To Zero Coalition completed the first year of the five-year Safety Corridor Pilot Program. The program aims to decrease fatalities and serious injuries on four highway corridors by implementing proven safety countermeasures, such as increasing the presence of state and local law enforcement.
114K Kansans lost Medicaid coverage in post-pandemic ‘unwinding’ review
TOPEKA — More than 100,000 Kansans have lost health care coverage through the state’s Medicaid program since April 2023 after the rocky “unwinding” of pandemic-era protections, but the agency in charge of the review has seen progress recently based on incremental changes. The state’s review of...
Wheat Scoop: South African trade team explores Kansas wheat
South African milling companies know their wheat — both in terms of the quality they need to produce the high-loaf pan bread their consumers eat and the price advantages and disadvantages of global wheat supplies. That means promoting U.S. wheat requires sharing information and demonstrating the advantages of the U.S. marketing system — both goals of a South African trade team visit that traveled to the Sunflower State August 22-24, 2024.
Kansas Grape Stomp is Saturday at Fair
MANHATTAN, Kansas — Feel the squish of the grapes in the time-honored tradition of grape stomping as you help celebrate the grape and farm winery industries in Kansas. The Kansas Department of Agriculture will host the 18th annual Kansas Grape Stomp on Saturday, September 7, at 1:00 p.m. in Gottschalk Park at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson.
States force drugmakers to keep selling cheaper meds under federal program
In their ongoing quest to lower prescription drug prices, Kansas and other states are forcing drugmakers to continue to sell cheaper medications to thousands of pharmacies through a federal drug-discount program. Under the 32-year-old 340B program, pharmaceutical companies that participate in Medicaid must sell outpatient drugs at discounted prices to clinics, community health centers and hospitals that […]
WINKEL: Community health boosts personal health
Most folks generally accept that maintaining good health includes an annual visit to the doctor to check their heart, teeth, ears and more. But there’s more to personal health than some may realize. “The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has done quite a bit of research over the years that...
Two years ago, sports betting became legal in Kansas. It wasn’t worth the risk to some.
Outrage is my beat. Somebody asked me the other day what exactly my beat was in writing a regular opinion column. The query came during a phone call with a producer for a television documentary while she was doing a pre-interview to decide if anything I had to say was compelling enough to appear on […]
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