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Municipal Bond Trends for April 3, 2020
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.
Scott County Hospital has protocols, ventilators ready if … or when … COVID-19 arrives
Ever since the coronavirus first emerged in the U.S. and even as it has evolved into a pandemic, many Western Kansas residents have been ambivalent to the risk. Few have chosen to practice social distancing. Many thought the governor’s decision…
Johnson County says church gathering size restrictions still in effect after clarification from state
The 10-person limit on gathering sizes will still apply to religious services, Johnson County officials said Friday night after receiving clarification from the governor’s office. The statewide stay-at-home ordered issued by Gov. Laura Kelly March 28 led to some confusion…
Mission votes to ‘take care’ of full and part-time city employees during COVID-19 stay-at-home order
The Mission city council during a special called meeting on Wednesday evening unanimously approved employee compensation and benefit amendments to the city’s state of emergency and disaster proclamation, which was originally issued on March 13 and first amended on March…
Rural Kansas’ Ambulance Crews Will Be Doubly Strained By Coronavirus
The Finney County Emergency Medical Service department, with its staff of 23, is conserving its N95 masks and only using them when a patient is positive for COVID-19. Like large hospitals, U.S. cities and entire European countries, rural EMS workers…
Kansas counties to receive portion of Strategic National Stockpile
FEMA has delivered Kansas’ portion of the Strategic National Stockpile and the Kansas Division of Emergency Management will coordinate distribution of these critical resources to all 105 counties starting this weekend to help communities respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
Kansas City area has spent years planning for a disaster like this one. Is it ready?
Parked at hospitals and secret locations across the region, dozens of trailers are jam-packed with hundreds of cots, masks, gowns and other medical supplies. Except for routine inspection, the doors to many are never opened and haven’t been widely used…
Sedgwick County residents concerned about toilet paper in price gouging complaints
Toilet paper has been a concern in price gouging complaints, the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office said. The Kansas Attorney General’s Office put the Kansas price-gouging law into effect on March 12, less than a week after Kansas’ first novel…
Kansas, Wichita do better than most in coronavirus economy, but it likely won’t last
In these days of coronavirus closures, about 103,000 of us are in essential industries in Sedgwick County and 117,000 are classified as non-essential. And while Kansas is suffering less than most from the COVID-19 economic crisis in the short term,…
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