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Mission makes it easier to sell and drink alcohol at downtown events

info2021-12-23T07:38:22-06:00December 23rd, 2021|

The city of Mission hopes to start allowing the public sale and consumption of alcohol during certain events in the city’s downtown area along Johnson Drive as soon as next year. The Mission City Council earlier this month unanimously approved plans to establish a common consumption area in which the rules for the sale and consumption of alcohol will be loosened during events like the city’s summer farmers’ market. The new common consumption area is generally bounded by Lamar Avenue on the west, Roeland Drive on the east, one block north of Johnson Drive on the north, and Martway Street on [...]

Outgoing mayor and city manager discuss their time leading Topeka

info2021-12-22T08:05:47-06:00December 22nd, 2021|

Mayor Michelle De La Isla nearly lost her life this year after being hospitalized with COVID-19, she recalled Tuesday. Yet she continued to take part in Topeka City Council meetings on Zoom, at times from her hospital bed, she said. "Because I love the city," De La Isla said. "Because I love all of you." De La Isla, who leaves office next month, and city manager Brent Trout, who leaves effective Dec. 31, appeared together Tuesday in the last of a series of joint news conferences they've held monthly since 2018, the year De La Isla became mayor. Trout, 55, is [...]

Municipal Bond Trends for December 21, 2021

info2021-12-22T08:00:38-06:00December 22nd, 2021|

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.

U.S. Treasury yields mostly flat amid worsening omicron news, lower growth forecasts

info2021-12-22T00:33:58-06:00December 22nd, 2021|

U.S. Treasury yields edged marginally upward on Tuesday, despite deepening concern around omicron lockdowns and a blow to President Joe Biden administration's spending bill that dented some U.S. economic growth forecasts. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note inched higher by less than a basis point to 1.420% at around 4 a.m. ET. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond moved slightly higher to 1.849%. Yields move inversely to prices and 1 basis point is equal to 0.01%. It comes as some economists lowered their growth forecasts for the United States after Democratic lawmaker Sen. Joe Manchin's refusal to approve [...]

Risk-on swings pendulum back to equities; munis stand pat

info2021-12-22T00:31:13-06:00December 22nd, 2021|

Municipals were little changed in quiet trading with few prints to direct benchmark yields in any direction while the pendulum swung to risk-on with equities seeing large gains and U.S. Treasuries slumping back to losses. Triple-A benchmarks were left unchanged, and ratios fell. The five-year was at 48%, 69% in 10 and 78% in 30, according to Refinitiv MMD's 3 p.m. read. ICE Data Services had the five at 46%, the 10 at 71% and the 30 at 79%. Tax-exempt municipal benchmarks have remained steady, owing to persistent uncertainty in what investors understand the term "inflation" implies, according to Municipal Market [...]

Hillsboro creates new community engagement coordinator position

info2021-12-22T00:27:34-06:00December 22nd, 2021|

Like many towns in Marion County, Hillsboro recently hosted a day of Christmas-themed activities, and many around town kept hearing about all of the fun things going on at the museums in town. Thanks to the hard work of Cara Duell and her new position as Hillsboro’s Community Engagement Coordinator, kids and adults alike got to have a different experience than usual at Hillsboro’s Annual Down Home Christmas earlier this month and it’s just the start of some of the events and ideas that Duell has planned. Duell was recently hired by the city to revamp the museum program and come [...]

Gardner plans to almost double in size with more and diversified housing

info2021-12-22T08:01:24-06:00December 22nd, 2021|

Gardner aims to turn itself into the gem of Southwest Johnson County for future residents and businesses. The city's former and current mayor are working together to double Gardner's size to the east and south on 5,000 recently annexed acres now open for development. Former Mayor Steve Shute didn't run for a second term, and Todd Winters succeeded him. “There was a perception for a long time that Gardner is anti-development,” Shute told the Kansas City Business Journal. “Gardner is not going to stand in the way. If you want to get into Gardner, now is the time to do it. [...]

Western Kansan reflects on losses after strong winds, wildfires

info2021-12-22T08:01:47-06:00December 22nd, 2021|

In the wake of last week's deadly wind storm and wildfires, recovery efforts are ramping up in western Kansas. The wind spread wildfires across 400,000 acres in four different counties. Two men died due to fire-related injuries. KSN Reporter Jessica Watson traveled to Paradise, Kansas, to talk to people in the area. They tell her they have a better estimate of how much livestock was lost in the area affected by the wind and fires. About 1,500 cattle were lost, which impacts the livelihoods of farmers and ranchers. Source: KSN-TV

Labette Co. Deputy credited with saving woman’s life after she was hit by train

info2021-12-22T00:19:45-06:00December 22nd, 2021|

It is cliché, but a southeast Kansas woman certainly is grateful that a Labette county deputy was "in the right place at the right time" on Sunday night. Gabe Vitt was on another call Parsons around 9:30 -- when he overheard dispatch tell EMS that it had a caller saying a woman had been hit by a train. The call was disconnected before dispatch could obtain a location. It just so happened Deputy Vitt was only a couple blocks away from where it actually happened. He got there, found the woman and applied a makeshift tourniquet to her partially severed leg [...]

Wichita City Council approves moving ahead with new development around Riverfront Stadium

info2021-12-22T00:17:09-06:00December 22nd, 2021|

The Wichita City Council voted 7-0 to approve a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for two acres of new development around Riverfront Stadium. The stadium was finished back in March 2020 and is located near Maple and McLean. The MOU allows EPC Real Estate LLC to go forward with planning and working to finance the development around the ballpark. The development would include a hotel of at least 150 rooms and six floors, an office building, a 200-space parking structure and riverfront improvements. The developer will seek up to $4 million in Kansas SPARK funding (American Rescue Plan Act) for certain public [...]

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