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Ron Fehr maintains professionalism, friendliness as long-time Manhattan city manager
Longtime Manhattan city manager Ron Fehr said he begins each day with a smile, an eagerness to work with his coworkers and aspirations to make Manhattan better. “I wake up every morning, and I’m still very motivated to come to…
A Massive Gap Explains Why Muni Bond Yields Are Near Record Lows
Over the next month, about $25 billion of municipal debt will be paid off. Bondholders will receive another $13 billion of interest payments in February. And mutual funds have pulled in nearly $7 billion of new cash already this month.…
City of Manhattan eyeing strategies to better attract, retain employees
Dealing with frequent employee turnover and difficulty recruiting, Manhattan is hoping to make changes to its workplace environment and transform the city into an “employer of choice.” Multiple department heads echoed similar staffing troubles during Tuesday’s City Commission meeting. Administrative…
Earthquake drills to become standard in Emporia schools
A 4.5 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter 3.6 miles southwest of Hutchinson shook Kansas at 1:08 p.m. Sunday, with tremors felt throughout the region — including the Emporia area. The US Geological Survey had initially reported that the earthquake was…
Topeka sticks with plan to outsource social service grants
The city of Topeka will stick with last month’s decision by its mayor and city council aimed at outsourcing the city’s program that provides grant funding to social service agencies. A divided city council on Tuesday evening narrowly rejected Councilwoman…
State grant funds new homes in Greensburg
Greensburg was recently one of 13 Kansas communities awarded $2.3 million for rural housing development from the Kansas Moderate Income Housing program, a supplement to Kansas Housing funding from the state. The grant money will help develop affordable housing for…
Kansas DMV Services Aim To Drive Down Office Wait Time
The Kansas Division of Vehicles added two new options to reduce wait times and long lines at driver’s license offices across the state. The agency launched a scheduling platform so people can make appointments instead of showing up at a…
150,000 Kansans Who Drink From Private Wells Are Largely Blind To Contamination
About 150,000 people in Kansas get their drinking water from private wells. How clean, and safe, is that water? Short answer: It depends. But new research suggests those wells deliver water tainted with a range of pollutants. Some leaked from…
Parsons hears info on Medicaid
The expansion of Medicaid in Kansas could result in $1.8 billion in increased economic output. That was the message that Jim Zaleski, city of Parsons economic development director, brought back from a luncheon in Topeka sponsored by the Alliance for…
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