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USDA Ensures All Kids Can Get Free Meals This Summer as Nation Reopens
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has announced a nationwide extension of another key flexibility for USDA’s child nutrition programs. This waiver allows local partners, who have been working overtime serving meals to kids during the health crisis, the ability…
Pittsburg commission approves funding for CHCSEK residency program facilities
The Pittsburg City Commission this week approved a grant of up to $600,000 — 10 percent of an estimated $6 million total cost — to be paid upon completion of a project to expand Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas’…
Individual KS districts to decide how school will look when fall semester begins
he Kansas State Board of Education Wednesday held a virtual meeting to discuss how Fall 2020 could look for schools across the state. The biggest takeaway from that meeting is that the board is going to let each individual district…
National Guard working in Johnson County to package 4 million meals for food insecure Kansans
Social distancing requirements have made it difficult for a variety of businesses and programs to operate — including meal packaging efforts for food insecure individuals. As COVID-19 stay-at-home orders progressed volunteer groups began cancelling meal packaging events with The Outreach…
10-year Treasury yield drops below 0.7% on fears of a second coronavirus wave
Treasury yields dropped on Thursday as rising fears of a second wave of the virus and a cautious economic outlook from the Federal Reserve drove investors to safe-haven bonds. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note plunged 6 basis points to 0.681%,…
Near-zero rates here to stay; “Dot plot” expects no rate changes for 3 years
The Summary of Economic Projections, released Wednesday, shows Federal Open Market Committee members expect the fed funds rate target to remain at zero lower bound through next year, with all but two participants expecting no rates hikes in 2022 as…
Shawnee to consider extending sidewalk for outdoor seating downtown during COVID-19 pandemic
Shawnee will consider allowing restaurants and bars to have temporary outdoor seating along Johnson Drive downtown. To accommodate downtown businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, Shawnee city staff on Monday proposed a plan similar to what Leawood now offers for the…
Shawnee to provide lease assistance for Drastic Measures, a new cocktail bar coming downtown
The Shawnee City Council on Monday agreed to help pay rent for a new cocktail bar coming to downtown. The owners of Drastic Measures, a spirits and cocktail bar coming to 5817 Nieman Road, requested lease assistance for the first…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. building new COVID-19 sample collection manufacturing facility in Lenexa
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a biotechnology company with offices in Lenexa, is building a new facility in the city to ramp up manufacturing of products for COVID-19 sample collection and transportation. Planning of the new $40 million manufacturing facility is…
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