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Kelly Signs Bill to Attract Healthcare Professionals to Rural Kansas

Governor Kelly signed a bipartisan bill that will provide students with medical school financial assistance. House Bill 2060 expands financial aid programs through the University of Kansas School of Medicine (KUMC) for students who practice primary care medicine or psychiatry in rural Kansas. The bill doubles the number of available agreements for KUMC students for the Kansas Medical Student Loan program and adds obstetrics-gynecology to the list of allowable practice areas.
Source: 101.3 KFDI

Ranson Financial2023-05-15T13:25:54-05:00May 15, 2023|News|

Wichita Fire Department recommends city remove 6-foot firework height limit, legalizing most consumer-grade products in city limits

Believe it or not, the Fourth of July is less than two months away, and people are already making plans and saving up for those fireworks. But this year, the Wichita Fire Department is hoping to convince the city to change its laws, making it much less strict on what you can legally shoot in city limits. … “We came up with the possibility of a two-phase process for the next couple of years. But the first phase that we just proposed is allowing aerial fireworks,” said [Jose Ocadiz with the Wichita Fire Department]. Ocadiz says the department put together a fireworks committee late last year that went to vendors, each district’s advisory board, and the community to figure out if the city should make changes to the fireworks laws.
Source: KAKE – News

Ranson Financial2023-05-15T13:27:55-05:00May 15, 2023|News|

Kansas governor vetoes bill to strip power from public health officials on vaccines, quarantines

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed legislation Friday that would have stripped the power to enforce quarantines from public health officials and squashed COVID-19 vaccination requirements for children attending childcare or schools. “Preventing Kansas’ local and state health officials from providing even basic testing for contagious human and zoonotic diseases — including measles, meningitis, Ebola, and polio — will hurt our ability to stop unnecessary outbreaks in the future,” Kelly said in a news release. The bill proposed limiting the clout of state health officials by restricting their ability to enforce testing and quarantines.
Source: KAKE – News

Ranson Financial2023-05-15T09:30:39-05:00May 15, 2023|News|

Going once, going twice, gone! Auctions are moving online and changing a rural tradition

Tractors, four-wheelers, a truck, a skid-loader and more are neatly parked in rows outside a northeast Nebraska farmhouse. The farmer who owns this equipment is retiring and is holding an auction on this chilly spring day to sell to the highest bidder. About 200 people, including Anthony Thoene, crowd into a machinery shed to browse. Thoene was hoping to get some fishing rods for his grandkids but was outbid. … For rural communities, auctions like these are often a social event to see neighbors and friends. But it’s not just the bundled-up neighbors looking for a deal. Internet bidders are logging on from as far away as Montana to make an offer. “There’s about 200 people here, but on the internet you’re talking thousands,” Thoene said. He occasionally helps Creamer Auction Company, the local business running this sale, set up their auctions. “So it definitely has improved the sales. But it’s harder to buy!”
Source: KCUR News

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Weskan community comes together to clean up after severe storms tear through town

The Weskan community is picking up after severe storms hit the town Thursday, uprooting trees and damaging homes and buildings, including the high school. Earlier in the day, there was tornadic activity happening just across the Colorado state line. “It was terrifying,” said Sandy Miller, Weskan resident. “It was shocking, like ‘Oh man, it really did happen,'” said Jeff Montero, Weskan High School Principal.
Source: KSN-TV

Ranson Financial2023-05-15T09:26:51-05:00May 15, 2023|News|

Pittsburg Police utilize What 3 Words app

The Pittsburg Police Department is encouraging citizens to start using a cell phone app in their spring safety campaign that could help them help you. They recently began using the free cell phone app What 3 Words. This app provides a way for emergency responders to help locate you when you are not certain of your exact location. If you’re going camping or out on a hike, you might not know the closest crossroads, or even a way to describe your location. When you download the app it divides the world into a grid of 10 feet by 10 feet squares, then it will generate three words. Those words will give first responders your exact location.
Source: KSNF/KODE

Ranson Financial2023-05-15T09:20:27-05:00May 15, 2023|News|

The highest and lowest-paying school districts in Kansas

Kansas ranks in the bottom third for teacher salaries nationwide and average pay by district ranges from $41,318 to $74,989, according to government records. In 2021, Kansas ranked 36th in the nation for public school salaries with an average public school salary of $53,932 or $11,158 less than the nation’s average, according to the Kansas Department of Education. Some of the higher-paying districts in Kansas include Shawnee Mission, Olathe and Lawrence which offer salaries over $60,000 per year, according to govsalaries.com. The districts with higher pay tend to be in more affluent areas of Kansas with higher property values and tax revenues.
Source: KSNF/KODE

Ranson Financial2023-05-15T09:19:27-05:00May 15, 2023|News|

Governor vetoes broad tax bill barring government competition against private sector

Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday vetoed a broad tax bill that prohibited governments from running businesses that compete with the private sector, a measure that critics said was intended to help one statewide business. The vetoed bill had 18 tax provisions, including one that would provide real and personal property tax exemptions for some businesses in cities where a government facility competes against a similar business.
Source: Sunflower State Journal

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Fed’s Bostic casts doubt on rate cuts this year even if there’s a recession

Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic said Monday that he doesn’t foresee rate cuts at least through 2023, even if there’s a recession. “For me, inflation is job No. 1. We’ve got to get back to our target,” he told CNBC’s Steve Liesman during a “Squawk Box” interview. “If there’s going to be some cost to that, we’ve got to be willing to do that.” His comments came as the Fed has raised rates 10 times since March 2022 in an effort to bring down inflation that a year ago was running at its highest levels since the early 1980s.
Source: CNBC

Ranson Financial2023-05-15T13:30:45-05:00May 15, 2023|News|

Please don’t use guns to fish, Kansas officials warn

Officials from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks came across a fishy situation last Friday after finding a firearm allegedly being used to fish. A Finney County Game Warden seized a 9 mm handgun “that was being used to take fish in Garden City,” Kansas game wardens said in a Facebook post May 5. The wardens said that written violations were issued for “illegal means of take of fish” and “no fishing license.” They also reminded Kansans that “firearms are not a legal means to take fish.” While firearms can’t be used to fish in Kansas, it is however legal to fish with a bow and arrow or a crossbow.
Source: KAKE – News

Ranson Financial2023-05-15T09:14:13-05:00May 15, 2023|News|

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Kelly Signs Bill to Attract Healthcare Professionals to Rural Kansas

Wichita Fire Department recommends city remove 6-foot firework height limit, legalizing most consumer-grade products in city limits

Kansas governor vetoes bill to strip power from public health officials on vaccines, quarantines

Going once, going twice, gone! Auctions are moving online and changing a rural tradition

Weskan community comes together to clean up after severe storms tear through town

Pittsburg Police utilize What 3 Words app

The highest and lowest-paying school districts in Kansas

Governor vetoes broad tax bill barring government competition against private sector

Fed’s Bostic casts doubt on rate cuts this year even if there’s a recession

Please don’t use guns to fish, Kansas officials warn

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