TOPEKA — Dozens of local school superintendents and Kansas lawmakers have packed the State Board of Education’s meeting room to show their support for a high-ranking education official. The board had a closed session Friday to discuss legal issues and planned to have another one to discuss personnel matters. It met after House Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr. and Senate President Susan Wagle sought the suspension of longtime Deputy Education Commissioner Dale Dennis and members of his staff. The Republican lawmakers’ request followed an audit questioning the legality of how some transportation funds have been distributed for years. They said they want…
Author: KMAN Staff
It’s been 73 years since the Battle of the Bulge took place on the Western Front during World War II and area veterans who fought off the last major German offensive campaign are gathering Saturday in Manhattan. “I was a combat infantryman with Company B, 1st Infantry Division, and I joined the battle after it had been launched,” Manhattan resident and Battle of the Bulge veteran Jim Sharp told KMAN Friday. “The Germans had broken through and I was replacement for some of those who were captured the first few days of the battle. The annual reunion of Battle of…
On Friday’s In Focus, U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) was on the show in a recorded interview from Wednesday. He was followed by Washington Correspondent for the Kansas City Star Lindsay Wise who offered insight on the approval of Gov. Sam Brownback’s nomination to a federal ambassador post. The show concluded with Riley County Police Department Director Brad Schoen.
The emergency radio system upgrade for Riley County first responders and police was approved and signed during Thursday’s county commission meeting. Commissioner Ron Wells made the motion to sign the approximately $10 million radio upgrade. The base cost for covers $5 million of the agreement with the remaining being paid for over 15 years. Chairman Marvin Rodriguez gave his thanks for all those involved in the process. “This was not an easy thing and I think it’s a big step for us and I think it will give us what we need in the county,” said Rodriguez, “You can’t put…
Martin Luther King III was 10 when his iconic father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. The oldest son of Martin and Coretta Scott King, he remembers his father taking the family to the YMCA and the fun they all had swimming together. He also remembers traveling with his father and witnessing the fight for civil rights. It was a movement of non-violence. And even though his father’s life was taken by an act of violence, his father’s message of peace and resistance to bloodshed reverberated inside K-State’s Forum Hall Thursday afternoon.…
Guests on today’s edition of In Focus included Jeff Wolfe, Conference and Noncredit Director at K-State Global Campus with Russell Disberger, Executive Coach for the K-State Global Campus Executive Education program and CEO of Aspen Business Group. The two were followed by Pawnee Mental Health Services Director Robbin Cole. Wolfe & Disberger: Cole:
Guests on today’s edition of In Focus included Blue Valley Randolph High School/Middle School Principal Marion Mazouch and Riley County Superintendent Cliff Williams, followed by Executive Director of the Manhattan Housing Authority JoAnn Sutton and Board Member Phil Anderson. Mazouch & Williams: Sutton & Anderson:
Updated: Thursday, 10:40 a.m. TOPEKA – Sam Brownback plans to step down as Kansas governor at 3 p.m. Wednesday following his confirmation by the U.S. Senate to an ambassador’s post. Brownback sent a letter of resignation Thursday to the Kansas secretary of state, detailing his plan to step down next week. Fellow Republican Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer will be elevated to governor. Brownback’s office has yet to release the details of Colyer’s swearing-in ceremony. The Senate voted 50-49 along party lines Tuesday to confirm Brownback’s appointment by President Donald Trump as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. Vice President Mike…
TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer on Wednesday announced plans to stop KanCare 2.0 and address concerns raised by legislators and other stakeholders regarding increased costs and the state’s ability to absorb those costs in future budgets, according to a press release from the governor’s office. As a result, they will be seeking to make improvements to the current KanCare program by either extending the contracts of the current three managed care companies for a period of three years or evaluating proposals received in response to the current bid solicitation without the cost increase drivers which…
Police say the death of 22-year-old Matthew Snyder, the son of K-State associate head coach Sean Snyder and grandson of head football coach Bill Snyder, has been ruled a suicide. The Wichita Eagle reports that a Riley County Police Department report obtained through an open records request says Snyder died last week of asphyxiation at his home in Manhattan. Police documents says Riley County police responded to an emergency call made by his father, Sean. No one else was injured and no foul play is suspected. The Snyder family is requesting that only family and friends attend the funeral on…