Tyson Foods says it will close 809-employee facility in Emporia by mid-February
Tyson Foods on Monday announced to employees it would close its facility in Emporia in February 2025. The plant has more than 800 employees. Source: CJonline
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Tyson Foods on Monday announced to employees it would close its facility in Emporia in February 2025. The plant has more than 800 employees. Source: CJonline
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In 1974, 400 marching bands applied to participate in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Only 14 were chosen. One of them hailed from a small town in northeast Kansas. To this day, in the 100-year history of the famous holiday parade, it is the only band from Kansas that has ever participated, Macy’s officials confirmed for The Star this week. Which makes what Wamego High School pulled off 50 years ago something of a miracle on 34th Street — performing in front of the famous department store in New York City on national TV. Source: Wichita Eagle
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It’s the largest economic development project in Kansas history. All the numbers associated with the new Panasonic battery plant at DeSoto — scheduled to open early next year — are gigantic: Up to $4 billion in investment. As many as 4,000 new jobs. More than $800 million in tax credits from the state. Panasonic is expected to have a transformative effect on the region and the state. Anything less, in fact, would be a major disappointment. There’s just one problem: President-elect Donald Trump appears on track to undermine Panasonic’s work before it has even begun. Trump — as has been widely [...]
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if somebody’s proposing to build something in your neighborhood, you’d probably like to know about it. And if it’s something that will alter the character of your neighborhood or affect your property value, you’d probably want to have a voice in the city’s zoning approval process, right? Those questions are being grappled with at Wichita City Hall and the City Council was briefed on various options this week, but it really comes down to two key questions: ▪ Who should receive a letter from the city notifying them when projects are proposed near their home? ▪ Whose input should trigger discussion [...]
info2024-12-02T09:44:30-06:00December 2nd, 2024|
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday called for no new tax cuts in 2025, setting the Democrat on a collision path with Republicans who have vowed to take action on property taxes after voters bolstered the party’s supermajority in the Legislature. The conflict’s outcome will influence how much Kansas homeowners pay in future property taxes, one of the most hated forms of taxation that helps pay for city and county government and public education. Some Republican lawmakers want to cut the statewide mill levy, which helps fund schools, while others favor a constitutional amendment that would limit annual property valuation increases. [...]
info2024-12-02T09:43:04-06:00December 2nd, 2024|
The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield advanced on Tuesday as investors analyzed latest Federal Reserve meeting minutes and key economic data due this week. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose more than 3 basis points to 4.296%, regaining some ground after tumbling in Monday’s session. The 2-year Treasury yield was near flat at 4.254%. Yields and prices moved inversely to one another, and one basis point equals 0.01%. The Fed minutes said future interest rate cuts were likely, but to expect them to come “gradually.” The minutes were tied to the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting earlier this month, when it [...]
info2024-12-02T09:41:28-06:00December 2nd, 2024|
A years-long project to remake Prairie Village’s city hall and police department may be taking a large step forward. The Prairie Village City Council on Monday is anticipated to consider taking out $5 million in bonds to pay for the Mission Road Bible Church property at 7820 Mission Road. This property, if purchased, is likely to become the location for a new city hall — a project that has been in the works for at least two years. For months now, Prairie Village has been publicly discussing the purchase of this property as it relates to the $31 million new city [...]
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The Wichita City Council is poised to vote on a new contract with the Fraternal Order of Police that gives officers hefty raises and eliminates one controversial provision that allowed officers to buy their way out of suspensions. But the contract won’t include many of the police accountability recommendations put forward in a $214,000 report by national police consultant group Jensen Hughes in 2023, and in at least one instance directly conflicts with a Jensen Hughes recommendation. Those proposals — including changes to officer discipline, promotion policies aimed at diversifying the department, excessive force policies and a requirement that officers immediately [...]
info2024-12-02T09:39:01-06:00December 2nd, 2024|
The Mission Hills City Council unanimously approved installing three new traffic cameras and license plate readers at three intersections along State Line Road. At its Monday, Nov. 18, the council approved the police department’s request to install cameras and plate readers at the intersections of State Line and 65th and 68th Streets, as well as at 70th Terrace. The estimated total cost for the three cameras is about $81,300, Mission Hills City Administrator Jennifer Lee said in an email after the meeting. The cameras and license plate readers are separate pieces of hardware that are installed together, Lee said. Source: Johnson [...]
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Update: HumanKind Ministries announced Wednesday that the emergency winter shelter will open Friday, Nov. 29. The emergency winter shelter in the former Park Elementary School will open on Dec. 2. The low-barrier shelter is part of the planned multi-agency center for homeless services at 1025 N. Main St. “Our immediate goal and objective is an emergency winter shelter, a 24/7, at least 18-week shelter through the winter months, much like we did last winter,” Assistant City Manager Troy Anderson said. “And then the goal is to ultimately transition into a full-time shelter with support services.” Humankind, a nonprofit formerly known as [...]