$117,408 has been awarded to support 18 new tourism marketing projects across Kansas. These grants will help communities expand their marketing efforts, reach new audiences, and inspire more visitors to explore the Sunflower State.
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The City of Emporia acknowledged voters’ approval of restrictions on high-impact data centers and certain battery energy storage systems Wednesday, while emphasizing that a court must still determine whether the petition measures are legal under Kansas law.
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The review builds on recurring Public Works updates and annual special work sessions featuring all-day road tours covering approximately 200 miles. The latest step establishes a framework for examining maintenance responsibilities while safeguarding access and fairness, not a blanket decision to close roads, discontinue service or leave landowners landlocked.
Read more: Hays Daily News
Cities and counties across Kansas decided on sales tax questions on Tuesday. Out of the 19 sales tax questions, 11 of them have passed so far.
Read more: KSN-TV
Kansas voters weighed in on several school bond measures Tuesday that would fund millions of dollars in facility upgrades and new construction projects. Most got the thumbs-up.
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Voters in El Dorado on Tuesday decided to ban large data centers and battery energy storage systems for 10 years. The ban passed with the support of more than two-thirds of voters.
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You can find headstones for Civil War veterans, Native Americans, people who escaped slavery and abolitionists. While neighbors like Hope-Paul take it upon themselves to tend to the gravesites and preserve Quindaro’s legacy, the cemetery is legally considered abandoned. Cemeteries like it are scattered across Wyandotte County — 18 in total, with tens of thousands of graves. That’s unusually high compared to the rest of the state — Wichita only has two — and even the country.
Read more: The Beacon
“Salina’s evidence failed to justify the distinction between regulated signs and unregulated murals,” the court said in a statement. “It did not show that signs pose greater danger to Salina’s interest in safety, aesthetic, and property values.”
Read more: KWCH
The petitions aim to ban data centers within city limits, prevent annexation of land for data centers, and restrict water services for them.
Read more: CJonline
Wichita’s new city manager Dennis Marstall discusses the failed sales tax and his plans to boost economic development and quality of life during the Wichita Business Journal’s ICT Summit. The failure of the proposed 1% sales tax in March raised a few questions for Wichita’s new city manager Dennis Marstall, who started in the role in January after spending 20 years in the booming Charlotte region. “It did give me pause, honestly, about — what are our priorities?” the Kansas native said at the Business Journal’s annual ICT Summit on Thursday. “How did people view the city?”
Read more: Wichita Business Journal
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