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Topgolf, Scheels bringing hundreds of jobs to Wichita

info2022-12-02T01:57:49-06:00December 2nd, 2022|

Companies new to Wichita are hiring and filling hundreds of jobs right now. Topgolf, near K-96 and Greenwich, is celebrating its grand opening Friday, Dec. 2. The company has already hired close to 300 people to work at its Wichita location. “I called my mom and I said, ‘I've never wanted to work somewhere as much as I wanna work here,’” new employee Anyssa Torres said. Torres and Carmella Estrada are getting trained this week to work at Topgolf. It held a hiring event last week and Estrada attended. Source: KAKE - News

Kansas Supreme Court justice tackles state’s severe shortage of rural attorneys

info2022-12-02T01:52:39-06:00December 2nd, 2022|

Eighty percent of all active Kansas attorneys live in six urban counties, leaving Kansas rural communities struggling to find legal help. The newly created Rural Justice Initiative Committee plans to tackle the issue, with the goal of attracting attorneys to practices in rural areas. In Kansas, there’s a ratio of two attorneys per 535 residents in urban areas, and a ration of one attorney per 808 residents in rural areas, according to the Kansas Judicial Branch. Wichita and Hodgeman counties have no attorneys at all, and five other rural counties have only one practicing attorney in the area. Eleven rural counties [...]

Kansas banking commissioner pleads for greater oversight of TEFFIs

info2022-12-02T09:31:08-06:00December 2nd, 2022|

The top banking regulator in Kansas urged legislators Thursday to embrace bills clearing a path for criminal background checks and fingerprinting of officers, directors and organizers involved in a new type of financial institution catering to wealthy people securing loans with their illiquid assets. State banking commissioner David Herndon asked a joint House and Senate committee to endorse the reforms and he reiterated frustration with state law inhibiting routine scrutiny of Beneficient Company Group, the state’s first authorized TEFFI or Technology Enabled Fiduciary Financial Institution. Beneficient, with offices in Hesston, is an online trust company offering services typically reserved for large [...]

Russell warns of utility disconnect scam calls

info2022-12-02T01:46:49-06:00December 2nd, 2022|

The City of Russell is warning residents about scam phone calls. The caller calls a home or business and threatens to disconnect their electrical service if they don't immediately pay a past-due balance. Several utility customers in Russell have reported receiving these calls. The City wants to let residents know that you should never give out personal or financial information like credit, debit card, social security, or bank account numbers, no matter how insistent they may be. Also, no utility will ask you to purchase a gift card, especially from another company like Amazon, a reloadable debit card, or some other [...]

Metal detectors are being installed at Wichita high schools

info2022-12-02T09:31:35-06:00December 2nd, 2022|

Students at Wichita West High School will be the first in the district to use security screening devices, starting Friday. The devices, approved by the school board in September, are being delivered and installed at all high schools. Staff at several Wichita high schools found guns at East, Heights and North in the first two weeks of the academic school year, The Eagle has previously reported. Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

After 45 years the on job in the courthouse steps out

info2022-12-02T01:40:31-06:00December 2nd, 2022|

Clerk of the District Court Donna Oswald is retiring after more than four decades of service in Atchison County District Court. Oswald plans to retire effective Friday, Dec. 9. Through mounds of court documents to the age of e-filing in the 1st Judicial District and the entire Kansas Judicial Branch, Oswald has overseen the district court operations for most of the 21st Century up to this point. Source: News | atchisonglobenow.com

Altamont talks water costs

info2022-12-02T01:34:07-06:00December 2nd, 2022|

Cost of water to the city of Altamont is going up from $0.004 to $0.0045 per gallon, lending to the Altamont City Council discussing the amount of water being purchased versus documented usage prior to signing a contract for 2023. Altamont City Council member Raymond Coffey told the council that Rural Water District No. 4 is checking with all cities to see if towns are wanting to decrease or increase their minimum usage and is looking at changing the maximum amount the city can purchase from three times the amount to two times the amount, which would lower the obligation of [...]

Advocates say Johnson County needs plan to end homelessness

info2022-12-02T09:32:46-06:00December 2nd, 2022|

Local advocates are calling on Johnson County leaders to develop a comprehensive plan to end homelessness in Kansas’ most affluent county. The Good Faith Network, a group of more than 20 local interfaith communities, and Project 1020, Johnson County’s only winter homeless shelter that serves single adults, want county leaders to actively work toward ending homelessness. Source: Prairie Village Post

Douglas County has one month to decide on maps for 5 commission districts

info2022-12-02T01:28:16-06:00December 2nd, 2022|

Now that Douglas County voters have called for an expansion to five county commission districts, new maps must be drawn and decided within one month. During a well-attended town hall meeting Thursday evening, Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said that out of 114 precincts, 109 voted in favor of adding two commissioner districts. Two of the five precincts that voted “no” to the Nov. 8 ballot question were in the city and the other three were in the county; there was no “county versus city” split, or anything like that, Shew said. Source: The Lawrence Times

USDA Seeks Applications for Grants to Help People in Rural and Tribal Communities Access Remote Education and Health Care Resources

info2022-12-01T12:29:33-06:00December 1st, 2022|

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small today announced that USDA is accepting grant applications for the Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) program to help people in rural and tribal communities access remote education and health care resources. The DLT program helps fund real-time, interactive distance learning and telemedicine services in rural and tribal areas to increase access to education, training and health care resources that are otherwise limited or unavailable. This effort is part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal that every American has access to affordable, reliable, high-speed internet. Digital equity is an important component [...]

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