TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas Senate committee expects to vote Wednesday on a plan for redrawing the state’s four congressional districts. The Reapportionment Committee plans to start with a proposal to expand the 1st Congressional District of western and central Kansas into northeast Kansas to pull in the Manhattan area. Committee chairman Tim Owens, an Overland Park Republican, said Monday he’s willing to have the panel consider alternatives. But he doesn’t support one alternative that keeps the Manhattan area with other eastern Kansas communities in the 2nd District but splits the Kansas City area among two districts. Legislators must redraw…
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A Topeka firm has been selected to perform work on the Pottawatomie County Justice center, after a long day of discussions and a vote by county commissioners of two to one. The decision to select KBS constructors came after the apparent low bidder of two weeks ago had a miscalculation involving a geothermal heating and cooling system as an alternate. Murray and Sons had a bid of $10.7 million. A total of 13 firms submitted bids for the project. KMAN News Director Cathy Dawes had an opportunity to speak with Pottawatomie County Commission Chair Gary Yenzer about the vote in the embedded…
KMAN’s Chris Swick looks at your health from KMAN’s Morning News.
The best January period for sales tax collections in Manhattan ever reported….that’s how Manhattan Finance Director Bernie Hayen describes the latest numbers, which actually reflect two months prior, or November of last year. However Hayen is quick to point out the distribution includes two months of Menard’s sales taxes so the total is somewhat inflated. Menard’s did not exist in Manhattan last year at this time. In the January reporting period, $969,391 was collected, with an adjusted rate of nearly $893,532. That compares to last year’s $795,299 for the same time frame and an increase of $126,041. The amount is…
Tom Phillips was voted in as the replacement for Susan Mosier in the 67th District of the Kansas House of Representatives Monday night after winning the majority votes in a replacement convention for the district. “I’m excited for this opportunity and am looking forward to visiting with the citizens in the 67th District,” Phillips told KMAN News. Riley Republican Party Chairman Barb Van Slyke was pleased with the turn out at the convention. All 39 precinct representatives were present for the vote, and it was standing room only in the Landon Room at the Holiday Inn near campus. “It just…
Last week, a video went viral that appeared to be a teaser trailer for a sequel to the 1980s classic, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” After much speculation, the full ad was released online earlier Monday and it turns out to be an ad for Honda. Still, you have to stop and smell the roses, to borrow a phrase. This video is still pretty sweet.
A disturbance in Grandview Plaza led to 20 arrests Sunday night, with 17 adults and three juveniles–many reportedly from the Manhattan/Ogden area. The AP reports the fight began late Sunday at the community center in Ogden and escalated in a field off Interstate 70 in Grandview Plaza, just east of Junction City. Officials told WIBW-TV the brawl grew out of a dispute over a girl. A spokeswoman for the Grandview Plaza police department indicates charges vary from rioting to inciting a riot, and disturbing the peace. Geary county sheriff Jim Jensen confirms the 20 are in his facility, with rioting and…