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Kingman man on mission to save small town America

A Kingman native is on a mission to save small-town America, particularly his hometown. “I am a place guy and this is a great place and I think it has kind of made me who I am over the years,” said Scott Mueller. Scott Mueller grew up on a farm just outside of Kingman, Kan. The K-State graduate spent the last three decades on the west coast pursuing his career in agriculture economics. However, he never forgot the place that raised him. “I think there’s a lot of ways to go back to your roots. A lot of people go back physically. I kind of went back and said, ‘what can I do?'” That “do” began with one building project in 2017 after a trip home to see his dad, Charles Mueller.
Source: KSN-TV

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How Cities and Counties Are Thinking Big With Their ARPA Plans

When President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law on March 11, 2021, the fiscal future for states and localities looked bleak. Public officials on both sides of the aisle were predicting that the pandemic was putting their cities and counties in dire financial straits and they would not recover for the foreseeable future. As a result, many anticipated that the $350 million of APRA money that was going to states and localities would be used to simply dig the country out of a covid-based hole.
Source: Route Fifty

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Great Bend Fire Department busy with Fourth of July calls

Great Bend Fire and EMS were flooded with calls on the Fourth of July. At one point, the majority of the department was called back to work to assist due to high call volumes. The department said they responded to 25 fireworks fires, one of which the home was a total loss. Seven of the calls were for EMS, one for a gas leak, and another five were from fires of an unknown cause.
Source: KSN-TV

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New Museum opens in Southeast Kansas

The “Parsons Historical Society Museum” unveiled its newest addition. Today the museum held a ribbon cutting for the “Farm Heritage Museum” that sits at 19th and grand. All the pieces of farm equipment on display were donated and the display cases were created by volunteers. The museum has been in the works since 2018 and was fully funded by donations. “Over there we have a wooden rake that a farmer pulled with one horse. When it get full of hay it would automatically flip. That’s probably the oldest pieces is 1880. I think they will get a great education bringing young kids in,” said Ken Ervin, Farm Heritage Museum President.
Source: KSNF/KODE

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Shawnee seeking public input in rebranding efforts, asking ‘What Makes Shawnee Shine’

The city of Shawnee wants residents’ help in polishing up its image as part of a rebranding effort happening this year. “What Makes Shawnee Shine” is seeking input in order to create new signs, logos and images in how the city will present itself to the public in coming years. The rebranding is different from the larger visioning or strategic plans cities sometimes do to guide their future policies, said spokesperson Julie Briethaupt. An online survey and a series of informal public meet-ups has been scheduled to give residents a chance to talk about the role the city plays in their lives. … The last time Shawnee did this was in 2009.
Source: Prairie Village Post

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Overland Park introduces e-bikes

The long-anticipated electric bikes have officially flocked to the Overland Park area as of late last week. A total of 40 e-bikes supplied by Bird Rides Inc. are now available to ride in various parts of the city. Overland Park officials have been exploring the concept since 2018. The bikes are part of a two-year pilot program the Overland Park City Council unanimously approved in February. In addition to the bikes, the city introduced 75 electronic scooters in April as part of the program. Most of the bikes can be located in northern Overland Park, but city officials said they are working to expand into southern portions of the city.
Source: Prairie Village Post

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Digging It Up at two Arkansas City sites: Large crowd hears latest on Etzanoa discoveries

Archaeology students and volunteers working at two Arkansas City sites last month uncovered many valuable artifacts that will help archaeologists piece together the Etzanoa story, said Wichita State University archaeologist Don Blakeslee. He described Etzanoa — a five-mile settlement of 20,000 ancestral Wichita located along the banks of the lower Walnut River — as a “mega-site.” Mega-site is a relatively new term that archaeologists have been using for the past five years or so, he said. It is a new concept that is not fully understood yet. They are using it to describe really large settlements that don’t quite match terms traditionally used — “farmstead, village, town, or city,” for example.
Source: The Arkansas City Traveler

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Olathe, Spring Hill annexation pact silences ‘will of voters’ in future

Attorneys representing the city of Olathe argued the Kansas Supreme Court’s derailment of an annexation pact between Spring Hill and Olathe could jeopardize similar alliances among municipalities guiding development throughout Kansas. On the contrary, said lawyers for the city of Spring Hill, the type of open-ended annexation truce adopted in 2006 by the neighboring cities in Johnson County shouldn’t be construed to unfairly bind elected officials of those cities. The Spring Hill argument was that voters shouldn’t be perpetually disenfranchised by policy decisions of city council members who served more than 15 years ago.
Source: The Iola Register

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Hays, Russell Receive Favorable Ruling In R9 Ranch Water Use

Thursday, the Cities of Hays and Russell received official ruling from the Chief District Judge of the Edwards County District Court denying Water PACK’s Petition for Judicial Review of the State’s order allowing the conversion of water irrigation rights of the R9 Ranch in Edwards County to municipal use. The District Judge’s decision affirmed the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Chief Engineer’s 2019 approval of the Cities’ change applications. The City of Hays purchased the approximately 7,000-acre R9 Ranch and its thirty water rights in southwestern Edwards County in 1995, and a year later Russell purchased an 18-percent interest in the property, with the intention of someday using the water as part of the Cities’ water supply.
Source: KRSL

Ranson Financial2022-07-05T10:21:21-05:00July 5, 2022|News|

Walmart wants lower property taxes, but the Kansas Supreme Court pushes back

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow to what’s known as dark story theory, an idea used by big box retailers to reduce their property taxes. The decision reversed a previous ruling in favor of Walmart’s argument that its properties in Johnson County were overtaxed by tens of millions of dollars. For now, the ruling effectively rejects the dark store theory big box retailers pursue to lower their tax rates. The theory says that big box stores should be valued as if they were an empty building, not an operating business. The case has much larger implications beyond simply Walmart and Johnson County, because it could determine whether the dark store theory gains a foothold across Kansas. In an unanimous decision, the court said the Kansas Board of Tax Appeals wrongly ruled in Walmart’s favor. The court said the board had disregarded evidence from Johnson County on how to value Walmart’s properties. The court sent the cases back to the Board of Tax Appeals to fully reconsider the county’s evidence. However, it’s possible the board could again rule in Walmart’s favor.
Source: KCUR News

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Kingman man on mission to save small town America

How Cities and Counties Are Thinking Big With Their ARPA Plans

Great Bend Fire Department busy with Fourth of July calls

New Museum opens in Southeast Kansas

Shawnee seeking public input in rebranding efforts, asking ‘What Makes Shawnee Shine’

Overland Park introduces e-bikes

Digging It Up at two Arkansas City sites: Large crowd hears latest on Etzanoa discoveries

Olathe, Spring Hill annexation pact silences ‘will of voters’ in future

Hays, Russell Receive Favorable Ruling In R9 Ranch Water Use

Walmart wants lower property taxes, but the Kansas Supreme Court pushes back

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