Thursday’s show featured Colonel Ted Brown, Commander of Fort Riley’s Irwin Army Community Hospital. Manhattan Regional Airport Director Jesse Romo also highlighted some of the CARES Act funding the airport is receiving from the federal government and about the ongoing parking lot construction project.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan bill Thursday sponsored by Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran to designate 9-8-8 as the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline. “Designating 9-8-8 as a nationwide suicide help and prevention number provides an easy-to-remember and easy-to-access service for people to dial when they need a helping hand,” Moran said. “As our nation faces a pandemic that limits our human interaction, Americans need this life-saving resource to help prevent suicide and provide a vital mental health service.” The line would include the Veterans Crisis Line for veteran-specific mental health support. Additionally, the…
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In the first budget session of the year, Manhattan officials talked plans for additional reductions to 2020’s budget if necessary due to decreased revenue resulting from COVID-19 shutdowns as well as goals and challenges in the upcoming fiscal year. Key points for 2021 raised by administrative staff included increasing cash balances, addressing staffing issues and competitive pay, creating a tiered strategic plan that prioritizes city services by importance and growing sales tax revenue after years of stagnation. Whatever the full picture looks like, Manhattan City Commissioners are aiming to start 2021 budget discussions with a flat mill levy and payroll.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators in Kansas are joining a broader effort to shield doctors, hospitals and businesses from lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus, with business and medical groups pushing them to act quickly. The effort faces strong opposition from labor unions, trial lawyers and some Democrats. They fear that such measures could be too broad and keep patients, consumers and employees from using the court system to hold businesses and medical providers accountable for negligence or misconduct. Similar efforts are underway in Congress, with Derek Schmidt of Kansas joining other GOP state attorneys general in calling for legislation…
Update 5 p.m. By Nick McNamara Riley County has no plans to implement stricter health and safety restrictions than that state when Kansas progresses into phase 2 of re-opening businesses. Health Officer Julie Gibbs provided no new additional details on Wednesday’s new positive COVID-19 test during the county’s online pandemic update. Gibbs says Gov. Laura Kelly will announce Thursday or Friday whether the state will remain in phase 1 for another period of time. The earliest Kansas can enter phase 2 is May 18, according to the governor’s plan. Once the call is made, local officials will have a clearer…
Manhattan-Ogden USD 383’s summer STEM program is set to begin soon, and will be completely online. Due to both K-State and USD 383 campuses being closed, the summer program is taking place online for the first time. Woodrow Wilson Principal Deb Nauerth (North) says this is a new year and new challenge for them as they go online. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering , and Math. These programs allow students to concentrate on certain areas they are interested, that may not get covered throughout the school year. Marlatt Elementary Principal Sheila Stevens says for example they have a first…
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Kansas farmers are expected to bring in a smaller winter wheat crop this year even though they will harvest about the same number of acres. The National Agricultural Statistics Service said Tuesday this year’s Kansas winter wheat crop is forecast at 306 million bushels, down 10% from a year ago. Average yield is forecast at 47 bushels per acre, down 5 bushels from last year. The agency said Kansas growers will cut wheat off 6.5 million acres, which is about 96% of the acres that they planted with wheat last fall.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Topeka police say a high school student set to graduate this year has been shot to death. Station WIBW reports that 18-year-old Joheem Meredith was taken to a hospital around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday with critical injuries. He later died from those injuries. Police say he had been shot in the parking lot of White Lakes Plaza Apartments. No arrests had been reported by late Wednesday morning, and police said detectives were still developing leads on a suspect. Meredith was a senior at Topeka West High School. His death was Topeka’s ninth homicide this year.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence has hired a new president. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Ronald Graham assumed the post Monday. Graham is the former division dean of instruction at Victor Valley College in Victorville, California, and is a member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. The school has operated under interim presidents for more than a year after former Haskell University President Venida Chenault left the office to work on a special assignment just days after a federal report detailed allegations of misconduct at the university. Several months later, the school announced that Chenault…