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Prairie Village to let citywide mask mandate expire on Oct. 31

The Prairie Village City Council on Monday evening elected to not take any action on its citywide mask mandate, allowing the current order to expire on Oct. 31. Prairie Village’s mask order — which was the first for a Johnson County city amid this summer’s spike in cases — went into effect on Aug. 24. The city council then extended the mandate through the end of October, largely based on the CDC’s classification of Johnson County as an area of “high” transmission of COVID-19 at that time.
Source: Prairie Village Post

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KS law enforcement agencies to collect unused medications this weekend

Law enforcement officers at locations across the state will be collecting unused medications for safe disposal on Saturday, October 23, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said today. The collection events are part of a nationwide effort to safely dispose of leftover medications to prevent accidental or intentional misuse. Since the Drug Take-Back Day program began in 2010, more than 110 tons of unwanted medications have been collected and destroyed in Kansas alone. “Unused medications are dangerous for kids, pets and the environment,” Schmidt said. “Diversion of opioid painkillers, in particular, can contribute to the misuse of these drugs that has become a serious nationwide problem. Getting leftover medicines out of the medicine cabinets and safely destroyed keeps them from falling into the wrong hands and makes our communities safer.”
Source: KSNF/KODE

Ranson Financial2021-10-20T07:02:01-05:00October 19, 2021|News|

In rural Kansas and Missouri, unhoused people often go unseen and unhelped

On any given night, an estimated 943 people in rural Kansas and 1,569 people in rural Missouri are homeless. But the actual numbers are likely far greater. … In cities and urban areas, unhoused people will often be on the streets, in public encampments, or in shelters. In more rural areas, people will seek shelter in the woods, abandoned farm buildings or couch surf. Shanae Eggert with Kansas Homeless Coalition said the “hidden homeless population” of rural areas perpetuates a cycle of scarcity. “We don’t identify as many people who are actually experiencing homelessness (as) we would in an urban area, and it’s unfortunately a cycle,” Eggert said. “Because this population is more hidden in those areas, you can’t show an accurate need like you could in the city.”
Source: KCUR News

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Johnson County district makes masks optional for older students as COVID cases fall

The De Soto school board on Monday unanimously agreed to make COVID-19 masks optional for high school students, effective Wednesday. The school district, like most others in Johnson County, has had a universal mask mandate since the school year began. But board members decided it was time to remove the mandate for high schoolers as COVID-19 cases decline. Masks will remain optional for high schoolers as long as the percentage of students needing to quarantine or isolate after being exposed to the virus remains below 4%. Otherwise, the mandate will be reinstated. Masks would then become optional again if that number drops below 2% for two consecutive weeks.
Source: Joco 913 News

Ranson Financial2021-10-20T07:03:49-05:00October 19, 2021|News|

Hobby shooters peppering neighborhood with bullets; Sedgwick County seeks to stop it

Residents of a Derby housing development say they are sick and tired of dodging bullets fired by neighbors in unincorporated Sedgwick County. They may get some relief Thursday at a special meeting where county commissioners are scheduled to consider a resolution that would make it a violation, with a $500 fine for shooting a bullet that strays outside the shooter’s property. Residents of the Northbrook Addition say they live in fear, in the line of fire behind where their neighbors on larger county lots adjacent to the development shoot targets with makeshift berms for backstops.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

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Roeland Park extends city mask order, comes to agreement over Bishop Miege’s optional policy

Roeland Park has agreed to allow Bishop Miege High School to continue its optional face mask policy until Jan. 7 for all students, faculty, staff and visitors, with some restrictions. By a 5-4 vote, with Mayor Mike Kelly breaking the tie, the Roeland Park City Council on Monday night approved a memorandum of understanding, effective immediately, allowing Miege to continue its mask policy, which it had implemented Sept. 20. Also on Monday, the city council voted unanimously to extend the citywide mask mandate, which was set to expire Tuesday, to 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 16. In supporting the extension, Kelly noted that neighboring jurisdictions, including Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., have mask mandates in place into early November.
Source: Prairie Village Post

Ranson Financial2021-10-20T07:04:10-05:00October 19, 2021|News|

Overland Park lawyer files $7 million lawsuit alleging she was unlawfully detained

An attorney in Overland Park filed a $7 million federal civil lawsuit against the city of Overland Park, it’s police chief, the Johnson County District Attorney and the county sheriff alleging she was falsely arrested and detained following an altercation with a relative. Shauna McRoberts said she was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic assault and detained for 22 hours on Sept. 16, 2018 by Overland Park police after they responded to her parents’ home. In the 37-page lawsuit, McRoberts said she was the victim of an assault but police arrested and detained her for no reason.
Source: KC Star Local News

Ranson Financial2021-10-20T07:04:30-05:00October 19, 2021|News|

City working to address Food deserts in Wichita

A south Wichita community now has no immediate access to fresh fruits and vegetables after their neighborhood Save-A-Lot closed and is now being replaced with a store that does not sell produce. Hamid Bakhtiari, the Wichita-raised developer, is putting in a new dollar store to replace the Save-A-Lot. Bakhtiari said he tried to replace the Save-A-Lot with another grocery storebut that the stores that were interested would not do it without incentives. “We had probably half a million dollars in refrigeration in that place. Walk-in coolers, we had everything there,” said Bakhtiari. Bakhtiari said he was ready to find a new grocery store for the food desert, but did not have enough help from the city.
Source: KSN-TV

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Kansas Mainstreet Program to expand its investment in downtown Kansas

Plans to expand the Kansas Mainstreet Program by up to three additional communities is scheduled to happen this winter according to Gov. Laura Kelly. “When our main street businesses succeed, our whole economy succeeds,” Kelly said. “That’s why my administration restarted the Kansas Main Street Program, to help communities program was launched in 1985 reinvest in small businesses.” The program was launched in 1985 but closed by former Gov. Brownback in 2012, then brought back by Kelly in late 2019. According to the current administration, the program invested more than $600 million in its first 27 years. Earlier this year, the Governor announced the addition of Atchison, Baldwin City, and Junction City, which brought the total number of designated Main Street communities in Kansas to 28. The program will now add up to three more designated communities, which are eligible for training and technical assistance designed to help them become self-sufficient in downtown revitalization.
Source: KSNT News

Ranson Financial2021-10-20T07:05:04-05:00October 19, 2021|News|

Is city street funding fair? Mayor, council member want to pave south-side dirt roads

The city of Wichita is on track to spend $11.5 million on road repairs next year, but the mayor and a council member say the city should do more to pave roads in poorer neighborhoods, particularly south of Kellogg. Wichita has roughly 100 miles of unpaved streets. Covering those roads in pavement requires property owners to undergo a lengthy and arduous process of gathering petition signatures and convincing neighbors to accept tax increases. Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple made his case for paving some of those unpaved streets Tuesday during the City Council’s debate over the city’s street-repair program.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

Ranson Financial2021-10-20T07:06:09-05:00October 19, 2021|News|

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Prairie Village to let citywide mask mandate expire on Oct. 31

KS law enforcement agencies to collect unused medications this weekend

In rural Kansas and Missouri, unhoused people often go unseen and unhelped

Johnson County district makes masks optional for older students as COVID cases fall

Hobby shooters peppering neighborhood with bullets; Sedgwick County seeks to stop it

Roeland Park extends city mask order, comes to agreement over Bishop Miege’s optional policy

Overland Park lawyer files $7 million lawsuit alleging she was unlawfully detained

City working to address Food deserts in Wichita

Kansas Mainstreet Program to expand its investment in downtown Kansas

Is city street funding fair? Mayor, council member want to pave south-side dirt roads

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