CHURCH TIMES
Unless otherwise noted, these gatherings are on Sunday and in Lindsborg.
Unless otherwise noted, these gatherings are on Sunday and in Lindsborg.
Over the past year and a half, America’s universities have faced mounting political and economic peril related to two issues: immigration policy and student protests over Israel’s war on Gaza. Meanwhile in that war, Israel has reduced Gaza’s universities to rubble, using aircraft and bombs provided by the United States.
On May 27, National Public Radio and three public radio stations sued the Trump administration in response to the May 1 executive order that sought to strip public media of its funding in the United States. The NPR lawsuit, filed in the District of Columbia, asserts that Trump’s executive order “violates the expressed will of Congress and the First Amendment’s bedrock guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of association, and also threatens the existence of a public radio system that millions of Americans across the country rely on for vital news and information.” The 43-page filing pokes holes in Trump’s executive order: a brazen attempt to extinguish public media throughout the country — and harm its audience in Kansas — based on a partisan grudge.
Flags of different colors fly side by side on North First Street last week. Pride Month, for people of alternative sexual orientation or identity, began Sunday.
Last year, Abigail Ottaway made a decision: If she is ever pronounced brain-dead and doctors don’t think she can recover, she doesn’t want to be kept on life support.
TOPEKA — Kansas farmers and ranchers are paying close attention to tariffs and whether other countries will show up for negotiations, and they need a Farm Bill to pass in Washington, two agricultural specialists said.
As of 2023, the most recent data available, both Kansas and the United States had historically low rates of people without insurance, 8.3 and 7.9 percent, respectively, since the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2010. But Kansas has not expanded its Medicaid coverage like most other states, and it has made an 11-state shift from having a lower rate of uninsured than the nation to a higher rate.