info2021-10-20T07:06:49-05:00October 20th, 2021|
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.
info2021-10-20T07:01:17-05:00October 19th, 2021|
The future of Clapp Golf Course is up for a vote today in the Wichita City Council. The course is located at 4611 E. Harry was closed in 2019 because it wasn't making any money. Leaders decided to turn it into a multi-purpose park. ... Phase I improvements will consist of partial demolition, grading and utility extension to accommodate the new entry drive and parking lot. It will also construct a year-round pavilion, restrooms, a playground and a splash pad as funding allows. Source: KSN-TV
info2021-10-20T07:01:47-05:00October 19th, 2021|
The Prairie Village City Council on Monday evening elected to not take any action on its citywide mask mandate, allowing the current order to expire on Oct. 31. Prairie Village’s mask order — which was the first for a Johnson County city amid this summer’s spike in cases — went into effect on Aug. 24. The city council then extended the mandate through the end of October, largely based on the CDC’s classification of Johnson County as an area of “high” transmission of COVID-19 at that time. Source: Prairie Village Post
info2021-10-20T07:02:01-05:00October 19th, 2021|
Law enforcement officers at locations across the state will be collecting unused medications for safe disposal on Saturday, October 23, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said today. The collection events are part of a nationwide effort to safely dispose of leftover medications to prevent accidental or intentional misuse. Since the Drug Take-Back Day program began in 2010, more than 110 tons of unwanted medications have been collected and destroyed in Kansas alone. “Unused medications are dangerous for kids, pets and the environment,” Schmidt said. “Diversion of opioid painkillers, in particular, can contribute to the misuse of these drugs that has become [...]
info2021-10-20T07:03:35-05:00October 19th, 2021|
On any given night, an estimated 943 people in rural Kansas and 1,569 people in rural Missouri are homeless. But the actual numbers are likely far greater. ... In cities and urban areas, unhoused people will often be on the streets, in public encampments, or in shelters. In more rural areas, people will seek shelter in the woods, abandoned farm buildings or couch surf. Shanae Eggert with Kansas Homeless Coalition said the “hidden homeless population” of rural areas perpetuates a cycle of scarcity. “We don’t identify as many people who are actually experiencing homelessness (as) we would in an urban area, [...]
info2021-10-20T07:03:49-05:00October 19th, 2021|
The De Soto school board on Monday unanimously agreed to make COVID-19 masks optional for high school students, effective Wednesday. The school district, like most others in Johnson County, has had a universal mask mandate since the school year began. But board members decided it was time to remove the mandate for high schoolers as COVID-19 cases decline. Masks will remain optional for high schoolers as long as the percentage of students needing to quarantine or isolate after being exposed to the virus remains below 4%. Otherwise, the mandate will be reinstated. Masks would then become optional again if that number [...]
info2021-10-19T23:39:18-05:00October 19th, 2021|
Residents of a Derby housing development say they are sick and tired of dodging bullets fired by neighbors in unincorporated Sedgwick County. They may get some relief Thursday at a special meeting where county commissioners are scheduled to consider a resolution that would make it a violation, with a $500 fine for shooting a bullet that strays outside the shooter’s property. Residents of the Northbrook Addition say they live in fear, in the line of fire behind where their neighbors on larger county lots adjacent to the development shoot targets with makeshift berms for backstops. Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle
info2021-10-20T07:04:10-05:00October 19th, 2021|
Roeland Park has agreed to allow Bishop Miege High School to continue its optional face mask policy until Jan. 7 for all students, faculty, staff and visitors, with some restrictions. By a 5-4 vote, with Mayor Mike Kelly breaking the tie, the Roeland Park City Council on Monday night approved a memorandum of understanding, effective immediately, allowing Miege to continue its mask policy, which it had implemented Sept. 20. Also on Monday, the city council voted unanimously to extend the citywide mask mandate, which was set to expire Tuesday, to 12:01 a.m. on Nov. 16. In supporting the extension, Kelly noted [...]
info2021-10-20T07:04:30-05:00October 19th, 2021|
An attorney in Overland Park filed a $7 million federal civil lawsuit against the city of Overland Park, it’s police chief, the Johnson County District Attorney and the county sheriff alleging she was falsely arrested and detained following an altercation with a relative. Shauna McRoberts said she was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic assault and detained for 22 hours on Sept. 16, 2018 by Overland Park police after they responded to her parents’ home. In the 37-page lawsuit, McRoberts said she was the victim of an assault but police arrested and detained her for no reason. Source: KC Star Local News
info2021-10-19T23:29:42-05:00October 19th, 2021|
A south Wichita community now has no immediate access to fresh fruits and vegetables after their neighborhood Save-A-Lot closed and is now being replaced with a store that does not sell produce. Hamid Bakhtiari, the Wichita-raised developer, is putting in a new dollar store to replace the Save-A-Lot. Bakhtiari said he tried to replace the Save-A-Lot with another grocery storebut that the stores that were interested would not do it without incentives. "We had probably half a million dollars in refrigeration in that place. Walk-in coolers, we had everything there," said Bakhtiari. Bakhtiari said he was ready to find a new [...]
