Hutchinson Mayor Jade Piros de Carvalho said she won’t be moving or having to give up her seat on the Hutchinson City Council after being hired to a new position at the Kansas Department of Commerce. Hutchinson Mayor Jade Piros de Carvalho said she won’t be moving or having to give up her seat on the Hutchinson City Council after being hired to a new position at the Kansas Department of Commerce.
Source: Hutch News
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard said Thursday that it’s unlikely the central bank will be taking a break from its current rate-hiking cycle anytime soon. Though she stressed that Fed policymakers will remain data-dependent, Brainard said the most likely path will be that the increases will continue until inflation is tamed. “Right now, it’s very hard to see the case for a pause,” she told CNBC’s Sara Eisen during a live “Squawk on the Street” interview that was her first since being confirmed to the vice chair position. “We’ve still got a lot of work to do to get inflation down to our 2% target.”
Source: CNBC
With Tuesday’s torrential downpours, many areas of Wichita looked like a lake. At least a dozen cars at once were stuck on a flooded stretch of West Street near Central. One of them was the guy driving Austin Gillihan’s van. “I’m hoping I can get it out of here today, hopefully get it started up. Hopefully it’s just a battery. Maybe I just need to dry the air filter out,” said Gillihan. Gillihan says this isn’t just any ordinary van. His organization, Firm Foundation Ministries, provides a safe environment for people transitioning out of prison, and it uses the van every single day.
Source: KAKE – News
The Garden City Fire Department (GCFD) has recently received pet oxygen mask kits through the Project Breathe Program, a pet oxygen mask donation program, created by Invisible Fence. According to a Facebook post from the Garden City Fire Department — KS, a few months ago, crews had to use an animal oxygen mask to help a dog that they rescued from a house fire to breathe. Due to the incident, the GCFD quickly realized they needed animal oxygen masks on all of their “first-out” trucks. That is when they reached out to Invisible Fence to become a part of the Project Breathe Program.
Source: KSN-TV
You can help the City of Wichita design the budget. The City is once again offering public feedback through the budget simulator tool. The exercise will help the Wichita City Council understand community priorities. The City says the data will be carefully reviewed, but it won’t be the only factor.
Source: KSN-TV
More than 4,000 bicyclists will flood into Emporia this weekend for one of the largest bike races in the U.S. The UNBOUND Gravel race in Emporia will feature riders from 50 states and 48 countries, ranging in age from 10 to 89 years old, according to Jordan Titus of the UNBOUND Gravel Group. The race, which predominately runs over gravel and dirt roads, will take off in front of the historic Granada Theatre and return to the same spot. The loop distances include 25, 50, 100, 200 and 350 miles. The event will feature weekend events including All Things Gravel, which will stretch over two blocks in downtown Emporia. More than 300 vendor booths, including an outdoor beer garden, will be set up.
Source: KSNT 27 News
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the introduction of Google Maps’ Street View feature, the Internet search giant has launched a new function that allows users to “go back” to 2007 to see what things once looked like. How does it work? Go onto Google Maps and place the little yellow person — which can be found in the bottom-right corner of your screen — on the map where you’d like to see a street-level view. Once you’re in Street View, at the top left-hand corner of the screen, you should see a clock icon. Click on the clock and should open a pop-up where you can move a slider through different years back to 2007, showing that view over time.
Source: Prairie Village Post
Overland Park saw a resurgence of single-family home building last year, with permits for single-family homes greatly outnumbering multi-family homes for the first time since 2017, according to data presented to a council committee Wednesday by the planning staff. The details: Community Development Committee members heard a generally upbeat annual report that described 2021 as a year of recovery from the pandemic challenges of 2020. Last year was a digression from an ongoing trend toward multi-family building that has been booming for at least the past five years. The year 2018, in particular, stood out as a huge year for apartment building, where 1,731 units of multi-family housing were built to 370 for single-family homes.
Source: Prairie Village Post
With significant funding already in place for projects, Rural Water District No. 4 was recently approved for $350,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funding by the Neosho County Commission for water main upgrades. Covering roughly a third of the county, RWD No. 4 also expands into Labette County. Representing the district at the May 10 and May 19 county commission meetings, Troy Smith and Ron Giefer made their case to commissioners. Commissioners were informed that much of the pipe was outdated, having been placed there in the 1960s and ‘70s.
Source: The Chanute Tribune
Participants in a panel discussion during the Wichita Business Journal’s ICT Summit agreed: Wichita’s unique small businesses and attractions are critical to building up the quality of life necessary to attract and retain talent. “Attracting and retaining, especially young talent, is really about vibrancy of the city, right? It’s the nightlife and the arts and culture, what makes the city really pop,” said, a partner in The Wave and The Cotillion, two local music venues. “I think we’re doing a good job, but I think we’ve got work to do.”
Source: Wichita Business Journal
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