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.
Shelley Miles lives on a quaint, tree-lined street in Lawrence. She used to share her split-level home with her husband, Kirk.
Annual show of locally made arts and crafts The annual Community Arts & Crafts Exhibition will held be from May 30 through June 29 at the Smoky Valley Arts & Folklife Center, 114½ S. Main.
Jessica Patterson’s grandfather served in the Navy during World War 2. Starting when she was about 10, he would take her to Elmwood Cemetery, where at least scores of veterans were buried, on Memorial Day.
The accountant hired for an annual audit of the city praised staff members’ bookkeeping to the City Council at its meeting Monday night. Danielle Hollingshead, lead auditor with Adams Brown, said that for one paving job worth more than $100,000 last year, the city should have required the contractor to carry a performance bond, a sort of insurance.
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CherryRoad Media publisher Jeremy Gulban visited the McPherson Sentinel on May 13 and said the News-Record is among CherryRoad newspapers that will go from being printed as a broadsheet on newsprint to digital production on brighter paper the size of a magazine. Photo reproduction, especially color, will be superior, but the projected 12 pages in the new format will have about two-thirds of the space provided by eight pages of the current broadsheet – which three years ago was more than 10 percent wider than it is now.
The Assaria City Council meeting for April 14 2025 was held at the City Building at 7:00. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Maggie Reeves Members present: Rick Tanner, Ben Ashmore, Kelli Witte, and Troy Long Visitors present: Bruce Bertrand and Terry Patry A motion was made by Kelli Witte and seconded by Troy Long to approve the March minutes as presented.
TOPEKA — A bundle of federal lawsuits in Kansas have been filed on behalf of a 14-year-old Olathe resident alleging owners of online businesses violated a state law mandating steps be taken to prevent minors from accessing pornography lacking scientific, artistic, or political value. The law center of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, a conservative anti-pornography organization in Washington, D.C., collaborated with a Hutchinson law firm to file suit on behalf of minor Q.R.