Rose Conlon
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Kansas News Service
Kansas health care providers are scrambling to respond to a global shortage of chemotherapy drugs.
Frank Morris
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KCUR/NPR
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A plan to provide most Kansas state employees a 5% raise costs about $11 million more than expected and is creating a potential for state agencies to shut down next year. -
Forces pushing rural decline are much bigger than state incentives and small-town organizing.
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The Lansing prison is reducing the number of visitation hours each week. It says that will allow more families to visit because the demand for visitation is so high.
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The departure of the churches in Kansas and Nebraska comes as UMC congregations around the country are debating the UMC position “that all people are of sacred worth and are equally valuable in the sight of God.”
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The ruling says managers at the Starbucks at 21st and Amidon told employees they could lose their benefits if they unionized.
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Tenants of Lew McGinnis say his apartments are in a state of disrepair, yet evictions are filed quickly and repeatedly.
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Few addiction treatment centers in Kansas let children come to treatment. That makes it harder for parents to get help.
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Kansas SB 180 will bring a host of changes, including limiting trans residents’ access to bathrooms. Much is still unknown about how it'll be enforced.
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Democratic state Rep. Marvin Robinson earned the ire of his party when he continually voted with Republicans on key issues, leading some of his colleagues to believe he sold his votes to get funding for a local project. But that may not hurt him politically.
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The Keystone was built with extra safety measures, yet it split open under run-of-the-mill pressure levels that less rigorously designed pipelines regularly withstand.
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