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Municipal News & Jobs2026-08-07T10:07:18-05:00

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Check out this adorable boat racing video from 1930s Wichita

A rare opportunity to observe the excitement and life of Wichita in the mid-1930s made the rounds on local social media this week. With a slight blueish tint, images of men in life preservers racing atop the Little Arkansas River in speedboats play over lively trumpet-infused jazz. Men and women in hats and the dress of the mid-1930s gather on the banks, perching on lawn chairs as they watch the speedboat race excitement. Jeff Roth, who edited the video, shared it on a private Facebook page called “Wichita history from my perspective.”
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

Old Abilene Town bringing history to life with ‘Chisholm Trail Days’ starting Friday

Old Abilene Town is honoring its history with “Chisholm Trail Days” Friday and Saturday. The two-day festival will include gunfighters, can-can dancers, and a historic reenactment of the shooting of Wild Bill Hickok. Development Coordinator Michael Hook said the festival takes a look at what it was like long before Abilene was known as the hometown of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. “We want to go back to the time before Eisenhower and really get into what we really started as,” Hook said. “I think a lot of the chronology of this town has a lot to thank for the cowboys for that. If cowboys hadn’t come, we wouldn’t be the town we are today.”
Source: KSNT News

Bringing broadband to the country

By partnering with the Kansas Department of Transportation and a couple of soil health organizations, the Kansas Department of Agriculture can help farmers succeed. Many locations throughout the state are broadband dead zones. For farmers and truckers to utilize new technology, they need internet connectivity, but bringing that technology to rural areas with low population centers is not economically feasible for many companies. That is where KDA and KDOT come in. The two organizations got together with two soil health organizations to make an incentive plan to bring broadband to central Kansas.
Source: Hutch News

Governor updates drought emergency, warnings and watches for Kansas counties

Gov. Laura Kelly approved the updated Drought Declarations for Kansas counties with executive order 21-26. The declaration includes 87 out of 105 counties either in a warning or watch status. The drought declaration placed 14 counties into a warning status and 73 into a watch status. The action was recommended by Connie Owen, director of the Kansas Water Office and Chair of the Governor’s Drought Response Team.
Source: KSN-TV

Labette County changes vacation rules to retain workers

Labette County commissioners on Tuesday agreed to accommodate hobbled county departments by paying employees for some unused vacation and allowing them to carry over any remaining after that. The accommodation is for this year only, commissioners said. The current policy is that county employees can carry 72 hours of unused vacation into the next year. The problem this year is that employees are leaving county jobs for other work and county departments are struggling to get enough applicants to fill vacancies, in part because of the lower wage offered for county work.
Source: Parsons Sun

Rail project near Haysville among 10 receiving funds

Gov. Laura Kelly and Kansas Transportation Secretary Julie Lorenz announced 10 projects, totaling more than $5.2 million, were awarded as part of the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Short Line Rail Improvement Fund Program. The announcement took place Monday at the Gavilon grain elevator in southwest Wichita, one of the recipients of program funding.
Source: Times-Sentinel Newspapers » Feed

Erie saved its grocery story by buying it and running it themselves

Erie city clerk, began the process by noting the building currently housing Erie Market was “relatively new,” since it had been rebuilt by the previous owners following a flood. “There were not many options on selling it, because it was a newer store,” Lero said. “It would take more money to purchase it,” and buyers weren’t coming forward. The owners therefore approached the City of Erie, because they had heard of other cities successfully operating stores of this kind. The city was receptive, but didn’t want to move forward without doing their due diligence, especially because “running it as a mom-and-pop is a lot different from running it from a city standpoint.”
Source: The Iola Register

Destination Kansas: Playing and exploring in the high plains

The high plains of Kansas have a lot to offer tourists. This region makes up the western third of the state. In the town of Liberal, follow the yellow brick road to meet Dorothy. While “The Wizard of Oz” never specified where Dorothy Gale started her trip to Oz, Liberal claims it. Visit Dorothy’s House and the Land of Oz, 567 E. Cedar Street, and skip down the yellow brick road. A few blocks from Dorothy’s house, take flight at the Mid-America Air Museum, 2000 W. 2nd Street, Liberal. More than a third of all B-24 command pilots in World War II were trained at the former Liberal Army Airfield. You’ll find more than 100 aircraft. The oldest is from 1932.
Source: KSN-TV

Hesston Community Foundation awards grant to Hesston Fire/EMS

The Hesston Fire/EMS department recently received a grant from the Hesston Community Foundation for the purchase of two Technimount Systems. The Technimount System is a safe and secure mounting system for the EKG monitor/defibrillator to the EMS cot in a way that is functional for technicians and is out of the way of the patient. The system replaces an equipment platform that is flimsy, extremely unsecure, difficult to mount and remove and it reduces access to the patient as it covers their lower legs, according to Hesston Fire/EMS Chief Russ Buller. The previous equipment platform was far less secure and significantly less safe. Because the new systems provide a secure mounting for the heavy device, they prevent the monitor/defibrillator from causing severe injury to the patient or technicians in the event of an accident or hard stop.
Source: Harvey County Now

New legislation is shaking up how local governments set property taxes

New legislation going into effect this year could play a big role in how much you pay in property taxes in Kansas. In March, Kansas Governor Laura Kelley signed SB13, a bill that adds a public hearing requirement for taxing subdivisions that want to collect property taxes beyond a revenue neutral rate. A revenue neutral rate (RNR) is a tax rate that would generate the same amount of property tax dollars for the city as the previous tax year, using the current tax year’s total assessment valuation. A RNR is expressed in mills. A mill represents one one-thousandth of a dollar. That comes out to about $1 of taxes for every $1,000 a property is valued.
Source: fox4kc.com | FOX 4 – WDAF

Gov. Laura Kelly announces new school safety workforce

Governor Laura Kelly announced a new initiative on Wednesday during her tour at Wesley’s Children’s Hospital. Kelly says the ‘Safer Classrooms Workgroup’ was created to protect Kansas students, teachers, and staff from the threat of the Delta variant of COVID-19. The Safer Classrooms Workgroup will be composed of pediatricians, family physicians, school nurses, pharmacists, school psychologists, and other health professionals. They will meet weekly to highlight the spread of COVID with educators, parents, and advocates about their experiences as schools work to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Source: KSN-TV

New program introduced by Wichita police aims to reduce violence among teens and young adults

Reducing violence among teenagers and young adults, that’s the goal of a new initiative called SERV (Strategic Engagement to Reduce Violence) from Wichita police. Police will work with violent offenders, educating them on consequences if they continue breaking the law. The community policing initiative comes from a Department of Justice partnership with the police. The chief of police says a lot of violent crime is related to what he calls habitual offenders. “This program really aims to get on early and pull people out of the lifestyle and get them on a trajectory that will be better for themselves as well as others in the community,” said Chief Gordon Ramsay.
Source: KSN-TV

Labette bike share community program up and running

A new community program is up and running in Parsons — more appropriately, biking. Bike Share Labette is underway. The free program was started as a part of the Labette Leadership program, and is designed to promote the exploration of city parks and trails. Organizers hope to make it bigger, and have started a fundraising campaign to expand it throughout the county. “Right now we’re trying to establish an endowment where we can be hands off for any kind of repairs or expansions and with that we’re hoping to raise 20 thousand dollars for that endowment and we’re currently at nine thousand,” said Hailey Barnett, Bike Share Labette Project Coordinator
Source: KSNF/KODE

Parsons getting new soccer field with help from former NFL Quarterback Shaun Hill

Former NFL Quarterback, Shaun Hill, is helping to give his hometown of Parsons its own field of dreams. Construction is nearly complete on the new athletic and practice fields for the Parsons School District. The project began about four-years ago with a donation from the Shaun Hill Pass Fund. it then grew to include sponsorships from members of the community and local businesses. “It means the world to Parsons and definitely to our youth, he’s a great example of giving back and being generous. He’s supported P-R-C for many years, 503 for many years and many other things in Parsons as well,” said Gary Crissman, Project Manager.
Source: KSNF/KODE

Water Conference brings in hundreds to Capital City

People from all over Kansas are in Topeka to learn about new innovations in the wastewater and water treatment industry. The 12th annual conference is put on by the Kansas Water Environment Association and the Kansas Section of the American Water Works Association. Attendees brush up on their skills by taking classes, hearing presentations, watching demonstrations of new technology, and participating in contests. Organizers said the end goal of the conference is to get workers educated on new technology so that the people of Kansas can get and dispose of their water efficiently. “Infrastructure is failing across the board, we’ve got a lot of old infrastructure and I think it’s really important for the community to understand that we need to make those repairs,” said Jason Patty, president of the Kansas Water Environment Association. “We’ve put those off for 50 or 60 years, and it’s time.”
Source: KSNT News

Goessel, Burns, Marion buck census trend

Goessel, Burns, and Marion seem to have bucked the trend for declining population in Marion County. The Census Bureau has not yet listed 2020 population figures by municipality for communities of less than 5,000 people. However, it has released data arranged by geo-location and geographic boundary that state partner organizations have used to calculate what can be regarded as authoritative, if not final, census data for municipalities of fewer than 5,000 residents.
Source: Marion County RECORD

Population growth a benefit for McPherson County

McPherson County experienced growth according to the recently released 2020 Census data. In fact, the population of McPherson County rose from 29,180 in 2010 to 30,223 for the 2020 census. This equals a 3.57 percent increase in residents over the last 10 years.  City Administrator Nick Gregory says making sure every resident was counted became a group effort of city and county officials.  “We met with the colleges, we reached out to areas that we thought would have a harder time completing the census, we worked with engineering to make sure census had all current addresses, we launched a social media campaign and worked with the public library to make sure people had access to computers to complete the census,” Gregory said. “It was an effort on the part of many to make sure every resident was counted.”
Source: McPherson Weekly News

Jantzen retiring after 39-year career with Moundridge

When Terry Jantzen started working for the City of Moundridge, Elm Street was at the northern edge of town, and the eastern extremity was just east of the high school. The longtime city employee will be clocking in for the last time next week after 39 years of service. A reception is being held in his honor from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10. “Thirty-nine years is a long time for somebody to be in one place,” Moundridge City Manager Murray McGee said. “There’s a wealth of knowledge there. He’s told us we can call him any time.” Jantzen was just looking for something different than working on the family farm with his father when he began working for the city in March 1982. He said Norm Unruh took a chance on hiring a 25-year-old on a temporary basis.
Source: McPherson Weekly News

Local Law Enforcement Explains What Happens To Seized Firearms

… the Newton Police Department and the Harvey County Sheriff’s Department … both do business a little bit differently. Newton, for instance, trades in seized firearms acquired through civil forfeiture with their equipment dealer when purchasing new equipment for the department. “We have these things sitting here, and whatever value we get for them is money the taxpayer doesn’t have to spend,” Newton Police Lt. Mike Yoder said. They work through a company, GT Distributors, based out of Kansas City and trade the seized firearms as well as old department service firearms to lower the cost of purchasing new equipment… The sheriff’s department can follow a similar procedure, according to information provided by County Public Information Officer Kyle McCaskey. “The firearm can be sent to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to be destroyed, can be used for department use, or it could be used to trade for equipment needs,” he said. “For example, the firearm can be traded to a licensed firearm dealer, and in turn, that funding could be used for equipment the sheriff’s office needs. In turn, the licensed firearm dealer can resell it, pending background checks, etc.”
Source: Harvey County Now

USD 439 bond passes easily with two-thirds support

Shortly after 9 p.m. on Tuesday, the Harvey County Elections website posted the unofficial results from the USD 439 Special Bond Election. The bond passed with two-thirds of the votes, 319-159. According to the website, registered voters numbered 1,415, which means the 478 ballots cast results in a 33.78% turnout. The bond, which is not-to-exceed $13.8 million, is the first bond passed for USD 439 since the late 1990s. The successful vote authorizes USD 439 to complete several major construction projects that include connecting the elementary and secondary buildings with a secure entrance and a new library/media center, building a new gym with an indoor track, weight room, and storm shelter, and elevating the football field and adding a new 8-lane polyurethane track.
Source: Harvey County Now

Pittsburg to buy 192 acres for industrial park

The Pittsburg City Commission this week approved purchasing approximately 192 acres located north of Atkinson and west of Free King Highway for $1.2 million and annexing it into the city for use as a future industrial park. “We only have so much industrial park space in the city,” said City Manager Daron Hall. “We’re very fortunate that we’ve got a lot of growth in the businesses that are in our industrial parks, and the few acres that we have unallocated are currently being sought after. What we don’t have is a very large, new, undeveloped industrial park with rail access, next to a highway, which this is.”
Source: Morning Sun

Audit report says STAR bonds are not boosting Kansas tourism

A new state audit found that few projects financed with STAR bonds are meeting requirements for bringing visitors and money into Kansas. The audit from the Legislature’s auditing arm was released Monday. Auditors found that only three of the 16 attractions they reviewed met tourism goals by bringing in a significant percentage of visitors from other states. STAR bonds allow municipalities to issue bonds to finance major developments, which are paid through sales tax revenue generated by the project. Among the projects not meeting the benchmarks is the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas, including the soccer stadium, strip mall, water park and business complex that surrounds it.
Source: Country 101.3 KFDI

Cherokee County panel adopts 1-year wind farm moratorium

Cherokee County Commission members on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution that establishes a one-year moratorium on wind energy development inside of county limits, saying they want additional information on such operations. “I believe we, as a commission, deserve the time and the right to fact-find,” said Commissioner Lorie Johnson, of District 2. The resolution establishes a moratorium and suspends certain types of improvements regarding wind energy on any land within the limits of Cherokee County for one year, officials said. The wind farm moratorium was approved after Thursday’s special meeting at which commissioners met with representatives from RWE Renewables Americas, of Texas, for the first time to discuss how the county was chosen as a potential site for an industrial wind farm. Garrett Ketchen, wind development manager with RWE, said the project would benefit local landowners who lease the air above their land and could create 10 to 15 local jobs. He added if the project was approved, it would be installed in three to five years.
Source: www.joplinglobe.com

Rural advocates pinpoint holes in Kansas mental health, multilingual services

Rural health and education advocates say increased access to mental health care and improved cultural or linguistic services would go a long way toward addressing disparities between communities of color and their white counterparts in rural Kansas. Francisca Jimenez, a parenting coach and home visitor for Russell Child Development Center, said a lack of cultural competency training or limited language comprehension leaves some Latino families isolated from consistent health resources. Families she and fellow home visitors work with can be uneasy about saying what ails them, especially in a foreign language, she said.
Source: Kansas Reflector

Legislative audit places Kansas’ lonely reliance on STAR bonds under harsh spotlight

The state’s $1.1 billion investment in special economic development bonds supporting museums, racetracks and other attractions produced only three outside of the mega-development at Village West in Wyandotte County that fulfilled the Kansas Department of Commerce’s primary objective of elevating tourism among long-distance or out-of-state visitors. Analysis by the Kansas Legislature’s auditors, who responded to lawmakers’ skepticism that the STAR bond program didn’t work as advertised, indicated the Kansas Speedway and Topeka Heartland Park track attracted 20% of visitors from outside the state and 30% of visitors from more than 100 miles away in 2018 and 2019. The Hutchinson Underground Salt Mine met both metrics in 2019. This study looked at 16 projects benefitting from Garden City to Derby and Atchison to Dodge City that host developments supported by diverting sales tax revenue to pay off the development bonds.
Source: Kansas Reflector

September will bring new badge for Hutchinson Police

The Hutchinson Police Department will begin wearing a brand-new badge starting on September 1st, 2021, in honor of the department’s sesquicentennial anniversary. Captain Thad Pickard, Captain of Professional Standards, designed the new badge. Pickard wished to create a badge that would represent the entire 150-year history of the police department, including the iconic Salt Hawk, a ring to describe the history of policing and a two-tone design to represent the different officers, patrol and ranked. ‘The shield is silver, giving honor to the true workforce of our department, the patrol officers, the banners are gold to honor the officers that hold rank,’ said Pickard.
Source: Hutch News

Audit: Projects using hotly debated Kansas economic development tool not hitting key benchmarks

Few projects financed using STAR bonds met benchmarks for bringing visitors and spending to the state, a new report from the Legislature’s non-partisan auditing arm revealed Monday. Moreover, a sampling of three projects using the tool found it will take decades, even upward of a century, for revenues from out-of-state visitors to reach the point where the state had made back the tax revenue it gave up for those enterprises. STAR bonds, short for Sales Tax and Revenue Bonds, are an economic development tool designed to boost tourism and business activity in Kansas. They have existed in the state for decades. They allow municipalities to issue bonds to finance major commercial, entertainment and tourism developments and are paid off through sales tax revenue generated by the project.
Source: CJonline

When will Kansas recoup taxes from STAR bonds projects? May be next century, auditors say

Kansas may spend decades — or even more than a century — recouping the sales tax revenue it gave up developing large attractions under a controversial incentive program, state auditors estimate. The Prairiefire museum in Overland Park? It’s sales tax break-even year may not come until 2104. The Wichita Sports Forum? It could be as late as 2076. The Hutchinson Underground Salt Museum? Your great-grandchildren will be around in 2132. Auditors for the Kansas Legislature released a critical evaluation of the state’s Sales Tax and Revenue (STAR) bonds program Monday that is certain to fuel calls for further reform of the incentive. Some lawmakers view the program as a revenue giveaway to entice business growth that would have happened anyway.Source: Parsons Sun

New machine will help Winfield add walking paths

City of Winfield workers assisted by Daniels Ready Mix recently tested a new slipform paver acquired by the city to help put down concrete paths. According to City Manager Taggart Wall, the new technology allows to city to lay paths much more efficiently than traditional forming methods. The slipform paver places, compacts and finishes the concrete as it is pulled behind a tractor or concrete truck. “We were able to work together with the management at Daniels Ready Mix to find the right mix design to help us be successful,” Wall said.
Source: The Arkansas City Traveler

McManaman named interim Barton County administrator

Barton County Engineer Barry McManaman can now at interim county administrator to his job title after action by the County Commission Monday morning. According to the employment agreement, the appointment went into effect Monday and McManaman will continue as engineer. … Included in the session along with commissioners were McManaman, County Clerk Donna Zimmerman and County Counselor Patrick Hoffman. It was also noted Monday morning that Zimmerman will continue in the assistant administrator role. McManaman has been county engineer at the end of 2015, coming to the county from the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Great Bend office.
Source: Great Bend Tribune

Experts weigh in on how creating new Miami County town could affect Hillsdale Lake

In an effort to prevent warehouse development from crossing the Johnson County/Miami County border, homeowners in rural Miami County have petitioned to form a new city. In June, the county commission heard public feedback on the potential incorporation of the City of Golden. Now the commission is hosting a series of study sessions to get expert testimony about how creating a new city could affect the county overall.  On Wednesday, the Miami County Board of Commissioners heard from water quality experts from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) about how incorporation could affect water quality within the Hillsdale Lake Watershed.
Source: fox4kc.com | FOX 4 – WDAF

Legislative auditors revise Kansas unemployment fraud tally upward to nearly $700 million

The state of Kansas paid an estimated $700 million in state and federal unemployment benefits to illegitimate claimants during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic while blocking $2 billion in potentially fraudulent jobless claims from people attempting to rip off the system, auditors said Monday. The Kansas Department of Labor and the Kansas Legislature’s audit division both had high confidence $380 million was sent to fraudsters impersonating others from January 2020 to February during the coronavirus health emergency. There is less compelling evidence in hands of labor department investigators and legislative auditors regarding $306 million in red-flagged payments requiring further analysis. The auditors’ total of $686 million in potential loss — a number rounded to $700 million in the report — was divided evenly between the federal unemployment fund and the state’s unemployment trust fund.
Source: Kansas Reflector

Kansas Supreme Court stays Johnson County judge’s ruling in SMSD mask case

In a sharply worded opinion, the Kansas Supreme Court last week stayed a Johnson County judge’s ruling that a pandemic emergency powers law is unconstitutional. Why it matters: The ruling temporarily puts a hold on Judge David Hauber’s ruling that the law, known as SB 40, violated the separation of powers and the due process rights of the Shawnee Mission School District. But SMSD officials say the stay will have no immediate impact on the district’s COVID-19 mitigation measures currently in place, including a universal mask rule in all schools.
Source: Prairie Village Post

Fund aims to help tenants get housing by incentivizing Lawrence, Douglas County landlords

A new fund from the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority aims to reduce high barriers for people to get housing by spurring landlords to loosen some screening requirements and agree to lease their units. The Landlord Risk Reduction Fund aims to help individuals and families who are either experiencing homeless or at immediate risk of becoming homeless, according to information from LDCHA. In order to do so, the fund will provide financial incentives to landlords in Lawrence and Douglas County: A lease up bonus will pay double the amount of rent upon successfully leasing to an LDCHA-referred tenant. That is a per-unit incentive, so more units can mean more funding. A damage reduction fund will offer damage claims beyond the initial security deposit. “Landlords will receive one month’s rent funded to cover any damage that may occur, guaranteed. If security deposit and initial incentive coverage is used and there are still damages, landlords can request additional funding up to two month’s rent (not to exceed 3x month’s rent).”
Source: The Lawrence Times

Cities sell criminal weapons per Legislature mandate

Six years after the state Legislature mandated that nearly all guns used in Kansas crimes be sold back to the public, the city of Wichita has become a substantial gun dealer, selling an average of about 400 firearms a year online — but receiving less than half of the proceeds. More than 2,000 firearms have been sold by City Hall since 2015, when it held its first gun sales in compliance with the state law that was passed a year earlier. The guns, seized from robberies, drive-by shootings, drug deals and myriad other offenses and investigations, are sold through an online auction site. Supporters say selling the guns is no different from disposing of any other surplus city property and safeguards are in place to ensure they’re only sold to law-abiding citizens through a licensed dealer. Opponents say local government shouldn’t be in the weapons business at all and that there’s no guarantee the guns won’t find their way back to the criminal element through private person-to-person sales and “straw purchases,” where potential buyers who can’t pass a background check enlist a friend with a cleaner record to take delivery.
Source: Local News | Wichita Eagle

New supermarket helps South Wichita neighborhood with “food desert” problem

El Mercado Fresco on Broadway and Harry in South Wichita was buzzing Sunday morning. The store has been open for just under two weeks and some shoppers, like Elizabeth Gallardo, say it’s already making a big impression. “It’s really good has a good variety both the Hispanic variety of the foods that Hispanics use a lot of and that other stores don’t carry and then has a good variety of just your American foods.” For Gallardo and other customers, this is more than just a new supermarket. It solves a problem many have been dealing with for a while. The area is part of a “food desert,” meaning there is no store with fresh produce for miles, at least, until now. “We missed it when it was Save-A-Lot and then it was the Dillon’s prior to that way way back. So it’s it’s been much needed,” Gallardo said.
Source: KAKE – News

Derby schools researching pay-to-ride busing program

Derby Public Schools is exploring a pay-to-ride busing program with hopes of having it in place for next school year. Under the potential program, parents who live less than 2.5 miles away from their child’s school would be able to pay for busing services. Currently, the state only reimburses each school district for bus riders who live 2.5 miles or more away from their designated school building.
Source: Derby Informer | News

Most Kansas students must mask up; COVID closes 1 district

More than half of Kansas students are now required to wear masks in school as cases the delta variant increase, leading to widespread quarantines and forcing one district to call off classes because of a COVID-19 outbreak. An Associated Press analysis has found that 30 of the state’s 50 largest districts have mask mandates in place, with most passed in the last month during often heated meetings and protests. Those 30 districts educate a combined 262,585 of the state’s 476,435 public schoolchildren. Several other smaller districts also have mandated masks as well, including Atchison and Wamego.
Source: KAKE – News

Dogs to have their day at Paola Family Pool

The dog days of summer may be wrapping up, but one special Dog Day is still yet to come at the Paola Family Pool. The annual Dog Day at the Paola Family Pool will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 30. As long as local dog owners have a printed vaccination certificate from the vet and a signed waiver, they are encouraged to bring their pooches to the pool that evening. There will be no entry fee.
Source: Local News | republic-online.com

Pittsburg cost of living far below average, lowest among urban areas in Kansas

One of the most affordable cities in Kansas could be closer than you think. It’s really close if you live in Pittsburg — because we’re talking about Pittsburg. We are — in general, major urban areas in the state like Manhattan and Wichita have a lower cost of living — 10-percent below the national average. Pittsburg takes it a step further. It sits at 18-percent below the national average. And this has been a motivating factor for some people to move to the area. “You go to the movies it’s like 12 to 13 dollars a person, you go out here it’s less than five dollars a person,” said Stephanie Watts, Pittsburg Resident. When compared to 258 urban areas across the country, Pittsburg has the lowest cost of living in Kansas according to the Center for Economic Development and Business Research.
Source: KSNF/KODE

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