Sales tax in Manhattan will rise .2 percent Saturday. Manhattan voters passed the increase in the November election with 65 percent in favor. The increase will generate an extra $2 million for the city annually. Those funds will go to street repairs and the city’s Safe Routes to School program. The increase puts Manhattan’s sales tax at 8.95 percent and will sunset after 10 years.
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A Manhattan state senator told KMAN he is optimistic the legislature can override the latest veto from the governor. “I’m hoping and thinking we’ll get the 27 votes to take care of our constituents,” Sen. Tom Hawk said Thursday. “That’s what we need now if the governor’s not gonna be a party to the problem solving.” Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback vetoed a bill that would have extended the state’s health coverage for the poor under former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. The conservative Republican made the move Thursday. He said the expansion would fail to serve the truly needy…
A docked boat that broke loose due to rising river waters caused quite the commotion near the lunch hour on Thursday, according to a press release from the Manhattan Fire Department. At 10:51 a.m. MFD was dispatched to the area of Pillsbury Drive and Linear Trail for a report of an out of control boat with two male occupants. The original report placed the boat on the Kansas River behind Aldi’s. Boats from MFD and the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office searched the area and were able to find an empty boat on the river. The original information about two occupants was…
Today’s guests were Milo Kelly of Manhattan, author of “I Want to be Wealthy–the Talk about Money”, Lisa Jones from the Irwin Army Community Hospital Nutrition month, Aaron Simon, Co-Director with K-State’s Apparel Textiles interior design Showcase and Assistant VP Student Life/ Director, Housing and Dining Services Derek Jackson.
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has vetoed a bill that would have extended the state’s health coverage for the poor under former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. The conservative Republican governor made the move Thursday. He explained that he thinks the expansion would fail to serve the truly needy and would burden the state with what he called “unrestrainable entitlement costs.” The bill would have expanded Medicaid coverage to as many as 180,000 additional adults. Legislators gave final approval to the measure Tuesday. It had strong bipartisan majorities in both chambers, but supporters were short of the…
(an investigation regarding a hit and run injury accident on I-70 is listed in a separate news report) Riley County Police Officers filed a report for burglary and criminal damage to property in the 200 block of Plymate Ln. on March 29, 2017 at approximately 8:40 PM. Officers listed Shengming Wang, 26, of Manhattan, as the victim when he reported that an unknown suspect cut the lock off of his storage unit and took 50 pairs of Nike shoes. The total loss associated with this case is approximately $15,015.00. Police ask that anyone with information contact RCPD or the Manhattan…
Riley County Police are investigating a reported hit and run injury accident Wednesday night. Officers responded to a report of an injury accident on I-70 at approximately mile marker 316 Wednesday shortly after 10 p.m. When officers arrived on scene, they found a black 1991 Mazda Protege, driven by Javier Gali-Rodriguez, 30, of Junction City, had been struck from behind by an unknown white truck pulling a trailer, causing the Protege to be pushed into a ditch and rolling twice before coming to rest on its roof. Gali-Rodriguez stated the truck did not stop and continued down the highway. Gali-Rodriguez was transported…
Two injury accidents were reported in Geary County Wednesday, with at least one attributed to slick road conditions. Elijah Lewis, 25, of Fort Riley and Kody Seiler, 19, of California were both taken to Geary Community Hospital following a Wednesday evening accident on I-70 near the westbound Fort Riley exit. Lewis was driving a 1990 Nissan Skyline eastbound on I-70 when the vehicle hydroplaned and struck a guardrail, re-entered the roadway where it was struck by a Mack Diesel truck towing three trailers. Seiler was a passenger in Lewis’s vehicle. The truck driver was not injured. And in a Wednesday morning…
Rain the past few days has led to standing water in some areas around Manhattan, although nothing serious is being reported. KMAN shares just a few photos of locations with standing water. However, Lyon County had some flooding issues, with K-99 (Lyon County) north of Emporia closed for a while over Dow and Stillman Creeks from MM 109-110.
Fifteen members of a new committee set on discussing the Manhattan High School mascot sat down face-to-face for their inaugural meeting on Wednesday at the Robinson Education Center. The group was formed nearly four months ago when the Manhattan-Ogden board voted to retain the mascot at a meeting on Dec. 7 of last year. The committee has until September to solve four prerequisite issues and possibly recommend to board members for the mascot to be changed. The fifteen members of the mascot panel were selected earlier this year. Superintendent Marvin Wade is sitting as the chairman of what he said…