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Christian Braun’s rise to championship with Jayhawks rooted in small-town Kansas

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Long before he ever won a national championship, before the growth spurt to become a 6-foot-7 NBA prospect, before the obscenity-laced celebrations, Christian Braun was just a scrawny hooper from Burlington, Kansas. If you’re wondering about the source of the fiery passion that Braun used to spark Kansas and help the Jayhawks overcome the largest deficit in NCAA men’s title game history for a 72-69 win over North Carolina at the Superdome on Monday, look no further than his hometown. The decision by Braun to continue listing Burlington as his hometown instead of Overland Park, where the family moved for his [...]

Municipal Bond Trends for April 5, 2022

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The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of MBIS "investment grade" yields. Every issuer's credit is different. For rates that may be applicable to your municipality, contact our Municipal Bond Advisors, Larry Kleeman and Beth Warren.

Fed’s Mary Daly says high inflation ‘is as harmful as not having a job,’ pledges rate hikes ahead

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San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly is worried about inflation, telling an audience Tuesday that the high cost of living is causing a heavy burden on society. "I understand that inflation is as harmful as not having a job," she said during a session presented by the Native American Finance Officers Association. "That if you have a job and you can't pay your bills, or I feel like I can't save for what I need to do, then that's keeping you up at night," Daly said. "And our goal is to make sure that people don't stay up worrying about whether [...]

Facades of Louisburg Improvement Program

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FLIP, or Facades of Louisburg Improvement Program, provides matching funds from the city to assist in facade improvements of homes and businesses. New for 2022 is a change in the award amount for residential applications up to $1,000. FLIP Residential provides city residents a one-time reimbursement grant of 50% of the project costs to make exterior improvements to the front of their home. However, the city’s reimbursable amount shall not exceed $1,000. For example, if your project costs $500 then the reimbursable amount will be $250; a $1,500 project will award $750 and a project $2,000 or more will get a [...]

Peterson hired as Manhattan’s Director of Community Development

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Manhattan has found its next Director of Community Development. Stephanie Peterson, who currently serves as Executive Director of the Flint Hills Metropolitan Planning Organization, has been hired to fill the position and will start on May 9. She will succeed Eric Cattell, who retired in March. Peterson will oversee the city department which administers different aspects of development, land subdivision, long-range and current planning and housing and zoning issues within Manhattan. Peterson joined the Flint Hills MPO as Transportation Planner in 2013, shortly after its designation by the State of Kansas. It provides a regional forum to coordinate transportation planning and [...]

Pet Ordinance is passed by Atchison

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Joe Warren, Assistant City Manager, presented Adopt Ordinance 6680 to the commission at the Monday evening meeting. The ordinance is repealing the old amendment and including new residential requirements to the keeping of animals on property inside the city limits. The ordinance grew out of complaints about a property near 8th and Unity streets that has dog houses with dogs and no living quarters on the lot. The owners of the animals live across the alley from the lot with the dogs. Discussions ensued at the city level about the uses of vacant lots in general about whether there should be [...]

Kansans doctors praise federal COVID-19 funding for underserved communities

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Doctors at a Kansas hospital say a half-billion-dollar federal grant is helping combat COVID-19 in communities across the state most disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Using funds from the National Institute of Health Rapid Acceleration and Diagnostics in Underserved Populations program grant, the University of Kansas Health System leaders say they have been able to engage with communities in need. The hospital engaged with 10 focus counties: Crawford, Douglas, Finney, Johnson, Lyon, Riley, Saline, Sedgwick, Seward and Wyandotte. Ed Ellerbeck, chairman of population health at KU Medical Center, said the hospital held more than 500 testing events and delivered almost 50,000 [...]

Wichita City Council OKs renovation of City Hall

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Wichita's City Hall is getting some improvements on the first floor. Today, the Wichita City Council approved a plan to make renovations that should help citizens who have business in the building. During the coronavirus pandemic, the City made temporary arrangements so most customers could get the help they needed on the first floor. The main focus was to help people requiring customer service from Water Utilities and Housing Community Services. Tuesday morning, council members voted 7-0 to make permanent changes to the first floor. The $205,000 cost would come from Wichita Capital Improvement Program (CIP) funds. Source: KSN-TV

USD 232 buying Olathe farmland south of K-10 for potential third high school

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USD 232 in De Soto plans to buy about 150 acres just south of K-10 Highway as a potential site for three new schools, including a high school. The purchase: The USD 232 school board on Monday unanimously agreed to purchase the property at 30400 W. 127th Street, on the northeast corner of West 127th Street and Waverly Road, for about $1.6 million, or roughly $10,900 per acre, from property owner B&C Land and Cattle Company LLC. Potential uses: Cost for this land purchase will come from the roughly $5 million the district set aside for land acquisition as part of the May [...]

Overland Park finalizes five-year plan for capital improvements

info2022-04-06T07:11:51-05:00April 6th, 2022|

Overland Park’s next five years of capital improvements have officially been set. At its meeting Monday, the Overland Park City Council adopted the city’s capital improvement plan for the 2023-2027 duration. This follows approval from the Overland Park Planning Commission in March. Details: This includes projects in several categories across the city’s Fire, Police, Planning, Public Works and Parks and Recreation departments. The $232 million five-year plan includes capital improvements — which typically encompass new facilities or fixes to existing ones — along with some maintenance repairs and recurring costs for city programs. Source: Prairie Village Post

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