info2020-04-16T08:06:45-05:00January 24th, 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 Advisors.
info2020-01-23T21:13:17-06:00January 23rd, 2020|
City council members say they are willing to look into an Overland Park resident’s request for stricter sidewalk snow removal enforcement. But any action, if it comes at all, won’t happen this year. The city council’s public works committee asked staff to look into how other communities enforce sidewalk shoveling after hearing concerns from Rebecca Crowder. Crowder had asked that the city take a stricter approach to snow shoveling by requiring residents to remove snow and ice from their walks within 48 hours and businesses within 24 hours. (Read more: Prairie Village Post - Neighborhood news and events for Prairie Village, [...]
info2020-01-23T21:12:37-06:00January 23rd, 2020|
It started with a cluster of communities competing for the economic benefits of a railroad line. “Each town site represents the belief of where the two railroads were going to cross,” [historian Jim] Whaley said. Where the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad tracks met would be the prime location for development. “Town buildings was something of an art,” Whaley said, and entrepreneurs wanted to be in early. He said there are 17 different stories about where people believed that junction would be. (Read more: www.chanute.com)
info2020-01-23T21:09:50-06:00January 23rd, 2020|
Starting this year, Johnson County Government will pay half the cost of controlling dust in front of homes on the 135 miles of gravel roads in the county’s unincorporated areas. Residents must pay the other half. Dust generated by traffic can be a headache, finding its way onto parked vehicles and inside homes. For the first 100 residents who sign up for the program, the county will spray magnesium chloride on a 400-foot-stretch of roadway in front of the home. The substance creates a cement-like surface, but the road will retain its gravel look. The applications are tentatively planned for May [...]
info2020-01-23T21:02:58-06:00January 23rd, 2020|
When you live in Johnson County, it might be hard to imagine a hospital that only has one doctor present at any given time. For rural hospitals, that’s just a fact of everyday life. It gets rough when they have trouble filling that position. That’s where Olathe-based Docs Who Care comes into the picture. The 25-year-old organization matches doctors and advanced practice providers, such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants, who want more non-traditional schedules and rural hospitals that need healthcare providers. (Read more: Joco 913 News)
info2020-01-23T21:14:04-06:00January 23rd, 2020|
A major agriscience company with global reach has announced the opening of a 22,000-square-foot research facility in this Pottawatomie County town of nearly 5,000 people. Corteva Agriscience, an American-owned agriculture company that employs more than 21,000 people globally, announced Thursday that it has opened a research facility in Wamego’s industrial park, located on the east edge of the city. The facility, which officially opened Jan. 17, will serve as a research center focusing on discovering new traits for corn, sorghum, wheat and soybeans. (Read more: Local - The Topeka Capital-Journal)
info2020-01-23T19:26:30-06:00January 23rd, 2020|
Nearly a hundred people came to the Kansas Capitol to meet with lawmakers and stress that Kansas needs to invest in passenger rail. Sedgwick Senator Carolyn Mcginn hosted the meeting. People attending included Kansas legislators, out-of-state officials with a vested interest in rail, an Amtrak official, and a Kansas Department of Transportation official. McGinn said this is the third meeting she has hosted on updating where the state sits, and it keeps getting bigger. She said expanding train service would benefit the economy and Kansans. (Read more: KSNT News)
info2020-01-23T21:06:01-06:00January 23rd, 2020|
Though anticipating it may not be well accepted by some departments in the county, the Reno County Commission this week indicated support for hiring a consultant to evaluate the county’s eight volunteer fire districts. Emergency Management director Adam Weishaar sought the look by an outside agency to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the exiting services and their future needs. “Several fire chiefs want to expand, remodel or build new fire stations,” Weishaar told the county commission, noting at least three departments have requested or are studying the issue. “We’re looking at costs into the millions.” (Read more: Local - The [...]
info2020-01-23T21:06:11-06:00January 23rd, 2020|
A rate study next summer on fees for the Reno County landfill is among nearly $490,000 in otherwise ongoing annual contracts for the landfill the Reno County Commission approved on Tuesday with a Wichita engineering firm. The $33,000 study, in part, will explore whether the county should begin charging tipping fees to users instead of just a flat annual fee the county now assesses on property tax bills. “We think the landfill is in a healthy financial state,” said Monte Markley, vice president and project director with SCS Engineers. “This is to go in a more overall positive direction how the [...]
info2020-01-23T19:17:34-06:00January 23rd, 2020|
Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay is one of 18 people appointed to President Trump’s new law enforcement commission. On Wednesday, Ramsay was sworn in by U.S. Attorney General William Barr during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Barr appointed the members of the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice following an Oct. 28 executive order from Trump. The Commission will meet monthly for the next year to explore issues affecting law enforcement, including the best approaches to lowering violent crime. “There is no more noble and important profession than law enforcement. A free and safe society requires a [...]
