Riley County commissioners approved streaming meetings and where to stream them during their meeting Thursday. IT/GIS Director Kevin Howser was tasked with researching options for streaming meetings. The requirements he was given include minimal cost, not a long-term contract, and not a long implementation time. He returned this meeting with three options for the commission; YouTube streaming and two media packages from Civics Plus. The YouTube stream is the minimal cost option since they already have cameras they can install. In addition, there are no charges to stream the video on the site. However, Howser did not recommend using this…
Author: KMAN Staff
State revenues are projected to be halved due to the pandemic, leaving possible cuts to Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 for 2021. Preliminary numbers related to the 2021 budget planning process were presented Wednesday to the USD 383 school board. Business Services Director Lew Faust says overall, their general fund and local option funds are down around $300,000. However, since they are not over the budget authority, this is good. Recent spring state revenue estimates from the Consensus Revenue Estimating Group show an estimated $827 million decrease for this year, with an additional $445 million next year for a total of $1.3…
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Issues with meat supply chains may be affecting national fast-food franchises, but local restaurants are still going strong. Within the last week, it has been reported that several Wendy’s restaurants across the country have stopped selling hamburgers due to supply shortages. Local restaurants, such as Vista Drive In, have yet to experience such problems. This can be attributed in part to the size of the long-standing burger joint. “Some of the issues for big chains is you need lots of beef, right?,” Andy Streeter, the general manager at Vista Drive In, said. “Well, we’re one store and the people that…
National Bio and Agro Defense Facility Program Manager Tim Barr with the Department of Homeland Security, USDA NBAF Coordinator for APHIS Dr. Ken Burton and NBAF Communications Director Katie Pawlosky joined the program Thursday to highlight ongoing work at NBAF. Perry Wiggins, Executive Director of the Governor’s Military Council joined us for an update on Fort Riley COVID-19 related topics.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has ordered flags throughout the state to fly at half-staff to honor an Overland Park officer who was killed in the line of duty. Officer Mike Mosher died Sunday. Mosher was off-duty but in uniform when he took off in pursuit of a suspect after an apparent hit-and-run. Police say the suspect stopped his vehicle, Mosher approached and a shootout began. The suspect, 38-year-old Phillip Michael Carney of Overland Park, also died. Kelly’s order, issued Wednesday, requires flags to be flown at half-staff on the day of Mosher’s memorial service, which has not been set.
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Legislature is expected to focus on issues related to the coronavirus when it reconvenes for a single day later this month to wrap up the 2020 session. A panel of legislative leaders on Wednesday decided that lawmakers will return May 21. The truncated session is aimed at limiting exposure to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Republican House Speaker Ron Ryckman told the Topeka Capital-Journal that it appears no vote will take place on a proposed constitutional amendment on abortion, with focus squarely on the pandemic.
The streak of no new coronavirus cases came to a halt Thursday as Riley County Health Department officials announced one new case, a 62-year-old man tested positive. All told, the county is monitoring 20 active cases of COVID-19. Ascension Via Christi Hospital has two positive patients and two persons under investigation who are hospitalized, showing symptoms and awaiting test results. Of the 56 total cases since mid-March, 36 people have recovered. A total of 631 people have been tested in Riley County so far, representing 1 percent of the county’s total population. Pottawatomie County is reporting 16 cases with 11…
Nicholas Wallace, an assistant professor in the Kansas State University Division of Biology, has received a $454,466 grant for cancer research. The R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award comes from the National Cancer Institute of Health and is for Wallace’s study titled, “HPV Oncogenes Dysregulate Translesion Synthesis.” Wallace is studying the resistance of certain cervical cancers to Cisplatin, a drug that is largely effective in treating cervical-cancer tumors. More specifically, Wallace and his team are looking at how to identify Cisplatin resistance in cervical-cancer cells and the different features that make certain cancers resistant to the drug. According to Wallace, the…
Thursday morning’s guest was Asian Market Manager Fanny Fang, a member of the Manhattan Area Recovery Task Force.