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Reno County health officials call current COVID-19 situation ‘grim’ as cases skyrocket

“There’s a 10 day incubation period in there that we were hoping maybe if we could get in front of some of these infections and spread it out” Welch tells KAKE News. Hammersmith is pleading with people to get back to those basic Covid precautions. She says that if people do not double down on their efforts to prevent the coronavirus, like practicing good hygiene, wearing a mask, social distancing, and most importantly with the holidays coming up, avoiding crowds larger than 10 people, things will get a lot worse before they get better. “Our next phase is really shutting down our communities. And nobody wants to do that. It doesn’t help with our economy,” Hammersmith tells KAKE News.
Source: KAKE – News

Ranson Financial2020-11-10T07:52:58-06:00November 9, 2020|News|

Topeka committee continues discussion on police reform

Anyone who has problems with a Topeka police officer needs to report that to the police department, City Councilwoman Sylvia Ortiz said Monday. “If it doesn’t get reported, he cannot get disciplined for it,” Ortiz said at Monday’s meeting of the council’s police and community committee, which is discussing topics related to police reform. Topeka police Capt. Jamey Haltom responded by noting that a page on the police department website is devoted entirely to compliments and complaints. “The department takes your comments, compliments and complaints seriously,” says that page. It includes a link people can use to provide input.
Source: Local News | Topeka Capital-Journal

Ranson Financial2020-11-10T07:53:19-06:00November 9, 2020|News|

Sedgwick County positive test rate is 23%, COVID case rate is 6 times above red zone

By every measure available, the coronavirus pandemic is worse than it has ever been in the Wichita area, according to the latest data provided by local and state government. The number of people in Wichita hospitals with COVID-19 has nearly doubled in two weeks. During that time, nearly one in four people who were tested had the disease. The coronavirus hospital situation in Wichita has worsened one week after a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations caused the city’s two major hospitals to hit their capacities for intensive care unit patients.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

Ranson Financial2020-11-10T07:53:28-06:00November 9, 2020|News|

Convention centers, museums become classrooms amid pandemic

In ordinary times, the airy convention center on a 61-acre site in Hesston, Kansas, hosts weddings, corporate retreats and church events. During the pandemic, it has become a schoolhouse for the district’s seventh- and eighth-graders. Megan Kohlman teaches literature and writing inside one of the rooms, separated from a math teacher’s space by only a plastic sheet. It’s hardly ideal, but for her it’s an upgrade from distance learning in the spring, when she juggled instruction with care of her own young children. “Everyone just really believes in the power of having kids with us as much as we can,” Kohlman said.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

Ranson Financial2020-11-10T07:53:55-06:00November 9, 2020|News|

Overland Park committee tables discussion on backyard hens

Dreams of backyard hens in northern Overland Park didn’t completely die at last week’s Community Development Committee meeting. But changes that would open up the possibility of keeping chickens for people living on less than a three-acre lot may be a longer time coming, if at all. The city council committee members became deadlocked on whether to move forward with legal changes that could allow more chickens in the northern part of the city, where properties are smaller and interest is higher. The issue was lot size. The city currently regulates hens through its planning department. As it now stands, people can have hens if they have at least three acres of land. Those on less than three acres have to go through a cumbersome process of appearing before the city planning commission to get a special use permit.
Source: Prairie Village Post

Ranson Financial2020-11-10T07:54:16-06:00November 9, 2020|News|

Sabetha sees increased sales tax distributions

Sabetha’s sales tax distributions are above last year’s distributions for October. This is according to the October County/City Local Sales Tax Distribution Report released by the Kansas Department of Revenue. The state issues these distributions two months after collection, so the October distribution is a reflection of August sales. Sabetha saw increased sales tax distributions in the month of October alone — with distributions of $46,321.74, a 12.2 percent increase from the $41,297.87 distributed in October 2019. Sabetha’s local sales tax rate is 1 percent.
Source: Sabetha Herald

Ranson Financial2020-11-10T07:54:57-06:00November 9, 2020|News|

Independence announces Park and Zoo leadership changes

Independence City Manager Kelly Passauer has announced staffing changes in the City’s Park, Zoo and Cemetery Department, in light of the pending retirement of Director Barb Beurskens. Angela Anthony has been named Park and Zoo Director and will join the City staff on November 16. Katie Southworth has been promoted to the role of Assistant Park and Zoo Director, under the City’s new reorganization plan. Anthony is currently employed as a high school science teacher in Copan, Oklahoma, but brings previous experience working as a park ranger and manager of visitor and volunteer services with the United States Fish & Wildlife Service at Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge near Okmulgee, Oklahoma.
Source: Independence, KS

Ranson Financial2020-11-10T07:52:51-06:00November 9, 2020|News|

Municipal Bond Trends for November 6, 2020

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.

Ranson Financial2020-11-09T07:06:57-06:00November 9, 2020|News|

Smoky Valley Distillery hidden gem of small-town pride

Decades ago, Bud Von Strohe and his good friend, Dewey Grooms, would drive in a Cadillac down Washington Street in Marquette, drinking whiskey and smoking cigars. Half a century later, Bud’s grandson, Stan Von Stohe, in remembrance of his grandfather, is cooking up a batch of Bud & Dewey’s Premium Straight Whiskey in his new business, Smoky Valley Distillery in Marquette. Although Stan grew up in Denver, he spent his summers helping out on his great aunt’s farm in Marquette. It was then he vowed someday he would return to this central Kansas town and buy the century-old grocery store on the town’s main street.
Source: Local – The Hutchinson News

Ranson Financial2020-11-09T07:05:30-06:00November 9, 2020|News|

More teachers are coming to Kansas than leaving it, data shows

Despite a common belief that Kansas loses more of its teachers every year, the state actually imports more teachers than it loses to other states. According to a report from the Kansas Department of Education’s Teacher Vacancy and Supply Committee, licensure data from last school year shows that with 562 new educators coming from out of state compared to 313 teachers who reported leaving the state to find work, Kansas imported 249 teachers.
Source: Leavenworth Times

Ranson Financial2020-11-09T07:04:16-06:00November 9, 2020|News|

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Reno County health officials call current COVID-19 situation ‘grim’ as cases skyrocket

Topeka committee continues discussion on police reform

Sedgwick County positive test rate is 23%, COVID case rate is 6 times above red zone

Convention centers, museums become classrooms amid pandemic

Overland Park committee tables discussion on backyard hens

Sabetha sees increased sales tax distributions

Independence announces Park and Zoo leadership changes

Municipal Bond Trends for November 6, 2020

Smoky Valley Distillery hidden gem of small-town pride

More teachers are coming to Kansas than leaving it, data shows

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