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Support grows for downtown historic district as survey nears completion
The effort to make the downtown a historic district is closer to completing what needs to be done before the application can be submitted to State Historic Preservation Office. After presenting information last night, members of the Clay Center Action…
Colbalt Boats announces $7M expansion plans in Neodesha
A southeast Kansas boat manufacturer will begin a multi-year expansion in Neodesha. Cobalt Boats will expand in a nearly $7 million project to improve operational efficiency and quality. “That kind of growth will be good for Chanute,” Chanute Regional Development…
Parsons to talk about Sunday liquor sales
Fourteen years after the Kansas Legislature made it legal, city officials likely will discuss the possibility of allowing the sale of liquor on Sunday. The sale of packaged alcoholic beverages has been legal in Kansas since 2005 but individual cities…
Topeka considers TIF District for area considered blighted at S.W. 29th and Wanamaker
The Villa West Shopping Center property at the northwest corner of S.W. 29th and Wanamaker Road is considered blighted under Kansas laws governing tax increment financing, Topeka city officials say. The city’s governing body plans Feb. 12 to consider scheduling…
After Garden City was targeted by white terrorists, residents choose hope over fear
Born in Kenya to Somali refugees, Ifrah Ahmed found a new home amid the cattle ranches, beef slaughterhouses and pancake-flat fields of western Kansas. Here in Garden City, Ahmed, 29, has made a community for herself with fellow African and…
In State of the City, Leawood mayor highlights accomplishments, raises concern about partisanship, school funding
Leawood had built a deserved reputation as one of the best places in Kansas and beyond to to live, work and play. That was the takeaway message from Mayor Peggy Dunn’s State of the City address, delivered Thursday at the…
Johnson County judge orders Election Commissioner Ronnie Metsker to comply with request for list of provisional ballots
A Johnson County judge on Thursday sided with the progressive activist who sued Election Commissioner Ronnie Metsker after Metsker refused to hand over a list of provisional ballot voters requested under the Kansas Open Records Act. Davis Hammet, who heads…
Fed holds interest rates stable, pledges ‘patient’ approach
The Federal Reserve opted not to raise interest rates during its policy meeting this week and pledged that future moves will be done patiently and with an eye toward how economic conditions unfold. In a statement Wednesday, the central bank…
US Treasury yields move lower as Federal Reserve turns more cautious
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to price, was lower at around 2.6720 percent, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was also lower at 3.030 percent. The moves in pre-market trade come after…
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