Year-over-year expenses are running about 3% lower.
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KCK neighborhood pushed for money to clean up lead-tainted soil. They got it
A $3.7 million grant from the EPA, one of the largest awarded nationwide this year, will be used to remediate 54 vacant lots in the Douglass-Sumner neighborhood.
Posted inHealth
‘We are living in reverse.’ Fragile HIV funding puts another strain on Kansas City’s safety net
HIV health providers have already absorbed some cuts and fear more. They worry that gains made toward eliminating the virus are in jeopardy.
Posted inImmigration
Deportation campaign in 2025 cost jobs for American workers, including in Kansas City
Immigrant communities fearful of expanding ICE enforcement are changing how they work and function in society. Their decisions are having broad economic impact.
Posted inHealth
Missouri and Kansas can expect another double-digit bump in ACA marketplace premiums
Every carrier selling health insurance in the two states through the Affordable Care Act marketplace hopes to raise premiums in 2027, according to preliminary rate filings with state insurance regulators. They blame rising healthcare costs.
Posted inEducation
Here are the winners of the Kansas State Board of Education Republican primaries
Voters in Johnson and Miami counties and much of northern, western and southeastern Kansas chose Republican candidates for the general election in November.
Posted inMeeting Notes
Kansas City Kansas Community College preparing for high-stakes accreditation review
Administrator tells trustees staff will likely compile more than 1,000 ‘pieces of evidence’ in advance of February visit by Higher Learning Commission. The school came off two years of probation in November 2022.
Posted inElections
Kansas voters to decide whether to make Supreme Court justices electable
Kansans will decide Aug. 4 whether to keep the state’s current process for selecting Supreme Court justices or to make the positions elected.
Posted inHealth
Vast produce supply chain complicates tracking cyclospora in Kansas and Missouri
As cyclospora cases climb in Missouri and Kansas, public health investigators are tracing illnesses through a vast produce supply chain, while some advocates argue regional food systems could make outbreaks easier to contain.
Posted inElections
Meet the Republican primary candidates for the Kansas State Board of Education
The winner of this election will face Democrat Amy Diediker for a spot on the board this November.