Newsletter-Early-Week

City Council continues talk about flood control plan

The Lindsborg City Council on Monday again discussed, this time with an engineer, the $3.29 million plan to improve the diversion channel west of town and help avoid the kind of flooding that struck homes on the north side in 2013. This would be covered by a general obligation bond to be repaid from the city’s Stormwater Utility Fund, which was instituted after the flood.

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American oligarchy is red, blue, and longtime

In his farewell address to the nation, former President Biden warned about "a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people." Such power is a risk, the outgoing president said, that undermines the very fabric of American life. "Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy.

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Care advised in eating wild fish

The bodies of wild fish and shellfish in Kansas carry the heavy metal mercury, a fallout from coal-fired power plants. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said some fish species should not be eaten more than once a month, especially by women who are nursing, pregnant, or who might become pregnant, or by children.

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