Kansas lawmakers, health care advocates and lobbyists packed two committee rooms Wednesday, wearing buttons and slogan-emblazoned shirts to showcase public approval of Medicaid expansion.
”SWEAT,” an upcoming KU Theatre production, will narrate conflicts amid community-building in the American working class.
Following an update on the city’s homelessness programs, many Lawrence community members who are living outside and advocates told city commissioners Tuesday that the city has broken their trust.
Kansas’ presidential preference primary results Tuesday showed that majorities of voters support incumbent President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump in their respective partisan races.
Gary Lee Prager, 3/21/1944 – 3/15/2024
Kansas communities are on track to receive state money to create more shelter for people under a new proposal — but a built-in provision could mean these people are criminalized for living outside first.
”So what if I don’t like the plastic bag ban? … We all have to do things that we don’t like for the greater good,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.
”Not even a brand new (and really good!) Tana French novel could stop ’Dune’ from its movie-driven climb to the top spot this week,” the Raven Book Store writes.
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The City of Lawrence has closed the sanctioned camp for people experiencing homelessness, but some people who have been staying in camps nearby are confused about where they can and cannot be until camping in the area is banned in a month.
Kansas will depart from its typical presidential caucus format and instead hold a presidential preference primary this year, and that election is coming up Tuesday.
