Municipal News & Jobs

To mark America’s 250th birthday, Wichita’s Cowtown has added a new exhibit honoring America’s pastime. The exhibit, titled the “155th Celebration of Base Ball in Wichita” opens Sunday at Old Cowtown Museum. The exhibit showcases early “base ball” as it was spelled back then, in Wichita and the city’s place as an innovator, not just in the sport, but in civil issues that were changing society.
Read more: KSN-TV

Residents gathered at the Perry Memorial Armory in St. Marys on Wednesday to learn more about a potential data center project that could be developed in Pottawatomie County. The informational meeting, hosted by the Kaw Valley Chamber of Commerce, aimed to provide community members with facts about data centers and answer questions about the potential economic benefits and challenges such a project could bring.
Read more: KSNT 27 News

The City of Arkansas City is inviting residents to help preserve a piece of local history through a new community time capsule set to be buried Friday, June 5, on the City Hall lawn. Community members are encouraged to submit photographs, letters, memorabilia, newspapers, school items and other small keepsakes that reflect life in Arkansas City in 2026. The capsule burial ceremony is scheduled for noon and comes just ahead of the June 6 opening celebration for Etzanoa, while also tying into the nationwide lead-up to America’s 250th birthday celebration.
Read more: Cowley Post

A Marion food truck owner questioned Monday whether the city’s food truck ordinance treats similar businesses differently. Anita Seacat, owner of Poncho’s Food Truck, told council members she had been buying $10 daily permits to operate Mondays and Saturdays at 616 E. Main St., property she owns with her husband. “I questioned why would we have to pay $10 a day or $100 for six months for us to do business on our own property?’” Seacat said.
Read more: Marion County RECORD

When they voted in February to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in public subsidies for the Kansas City Chiefs, Wyandotte County officials wanted to make sure they would not be left out of oversight for the new Chiefs stadium. Now, four months later, at least one state official is saying the county has not yet earned a spot at the table. Rep. Sean Tarwater, a Republican from Stilwell in Johnson County, said that although Wyandotte County approved its $450 million subsidy for the Chiefs, a provision in that ordinance bars the county from having representation on the newly created Kansas Sports Facilities Authority, which will own the stadium. That sports authority, created by HB2466 in April, will own the property for the new Chiefs stadium, oversee its administration and decide how to spend the $7 million per year that the team will pay in stadium rent to the state. But several elected leaders at the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, disputed Tarwater’s claim and believe the county’s contribution makes it legally entitled to a seat on the sports authority board.
Read more: The Beacon

The City of Hutchinson is working on temporary and permanent regulations for data center and battery energy storage systems (BESS) development, with a final decision on the desk of the Hutchinson City Council by October. That’s according to Director of Community Development Matt Williams, who gave a timeline of regulations to the council during the public comment section of the most recent Hutchinson City Council meeting. Williams said the two-track process to regulate data centers and BESS began with a May 5 approval from the council to begin the review process for temporary and permanent regulations.
Read more: The Hutchinson Tribune

The City of Lawrence made an offer to the commission’s chosen city manager candidate last week. Legal counsel and consultants are still in contract negotiations, according to the mayor. “We hope to wrap those negotiations up very soon and schedule a final vote and announcement shortly thereafter,” Mayor Brad Finkeldei said. Until then, the city won’t release the name of the potential city manager.
Read more: The Lawrence Times

The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of AA rated bond trades reported to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA® system. Every issuer’s credit is different, and other financing sources may be available. To obtain comprehensive Financial Advisory services for your local government, contact your Ranson Financial Municipal Advisor, Larry Kleeman, or Henry Schmidt.

The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of AA rated bond trades reported to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA® system. Every issuer’s credit is different, and other financing sources may be available. To obtain comprehensive Financial Advisory services for your local government, contact your Ranson Financial Municipal Advisor, Larry Kleeman, or Henry Schmidt.

The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of AA rated bond trades reported to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA® system. Every issuer’s credit is different, and other financing sources may be available. To obtain comprehensive Financial Advisory services for your local government, contact your Ranson Financial Municipal Advisor, Larry Kleeman, or Henry Schmidt.

Drawn by ads touting Nicodemus as a “promised land,” hundreds of former slaves fled southern oppression to settle beginning in 1877 in that all-Black community on the plains of northwest Kansas.
Read more: CJonline

Sometimes it is difficult to comprehend just how fast Maize is growing. Sure, new houses are being framed throughout the city. And the paint is still drying on several retail developments. But it’s the numbers that add context to the story.
Read more: Wichita Eagle

KDHE today announced the recipients of the Regional Partnerships Grant Program (RPGP) and Rural Emergency Hospital Conversion/Transformative Capital Investment Program (REH/CAP) grants through the Kansas Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). In total, $79.1 million is being awarded to 39 organizations across the state, representing a major investment in strengthening access to care across rural Kansas.
Read more: KDHE, KS – News Flash

The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of AA rated bond trades reported to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s EMMA® system. Every issuer’s credit is different, and other financing sources may be available. To obtain comprehensive Financial Advisory services for your local government, contact your Ranson Financial Municipal Advisor, Larry Kleeman, or Henry Schmidt.

With summer underway, council members are concerned about the safety of the city’s younger citizens after seeing kids riding down the center line of streets, running stop signs, crossing traffic, and other activities that may end badly.
Read more: Morning Sun

All reservoirs in Kansas suffer from the same problem: each is gradually being filled in with sediment. Natural processes such as erosion contribute to this issue, posing a threat to the people and industries that rely on the state’s reservoirs.
Read more: KSN-TV

The 58th annual Beef Empire Days starts this weekend. Bonita McClure, Executive Director of Beef Empire Days, said the festival celebrates the beef industry and promotes beef in the southwest Kansas area.
Read more: Garden City Telegram

Overland Park is pondering ways to improve the city’s lone recycling center, which attracts thousands of users each year and takes in more than a million pounds of recyclable materials.
Read more: Johnson County Post

The Flint Hills Rodeo in Strong City draws competitors and spectators from all over to fill a 6,000-seat arena.
Read more: KSN-TV

The Pittsburg business community is optimistic about attracting more data centers to the area, as the city has been welcoming to the existing data center and has an airport industrial park with available property.
Read more: KSNF/KODE