About 72% of Americans with medical debt say it came from a short-term medical expense, like an accident or hospital stay. That’s according to data from K-F-F, a non-partisan health research organization. Those costs can mean families have to give up non-essential expenses, like children’s sports programs. A charity is helping kids in Kansas and Missouri finish the season.
Plus more on these stories:
- A proposal for a 1 percent city sales tax was resoundingly rejected by Wichita voters yesterday.
- U.S. Senator Roger Marshall is urging any Kansas resident in the Middle East to evacuate immediately.
- Wichita police have arrested a 40-year-old Wichita man in connection to a fatal shooting that happened on North Hydraulic Monday night.
- Wichita will build a new fire station at a Pawnee and Maize. The station is set to open in 2027 and will be the first new station built in the city since 2009.
- Kansas lawmakers want the state’s prisoner review board to consist of political appointments. A bill would expand the board from three to five members who are selected by the governor and attorney general.
- Kansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would legalize silencers and sawed-off firearms.
- A sitting Kansas state representative from Olathe died Monday. We have more on the death of John Resman.
- The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is working with the city of Galena to mitigate odor from a landfill.
- Applications are now being accepted for the Kansas SUN Bucks program.
- Kansas emergency management and the National Weather Service will hold a statewide tornado drill today.
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