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Municipal Bond Trends for July 22, 2026
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…
<div style="color: #333;">Kansas Tourism Opens Applications for Tourism Marketing Grant Program</div>
Kansas Tourism, a division within the Kansas Department of Commerce, today announced that applications are open for the Tourism Marketing Grant program. The grants are designed to assist local tourism organizations or attractions in new or first-time innovative marketing initiatives.…
<div style="color: #333;">‘Place where you can truly live:’ Planned grocery store fills huge need downtown</div>
Chase Koch's Movement Musick nonprofit partners with the Queen family to bring a 30,000 square-foot grocery store to downtown Wichita, addressing a long-standing gap in the market. Read more: Wichita Business Journal
<div style="color: #333;">Mural to add rural scene downtown</div>
Local artist and community muralist Brady Scott is working on another mural on a downtown building in Hutchinson, and he was given only two requests by the building’s owner: paint it blue and put in natural elements. Scott started working…
<div style="color: #333;">Law professor outlines data center concerns for rural landowners</div>
The potential for data centers being built in Pottawatomie County gives rural landowners an uneasy future, an agriculture law professor said. Roger McEowen is the Kansas Farm Bureau professor of agricultural law and taxation at Washburn and also teaches undergraduate…
<div style="color: #333;">KDOT shares reminder on political sign regulations</div>
With political campaigning and the posting of campaign signs fully underway ahead of the August primary election, the Kansas Department of Transportation recently put out a reminder on display regulations for political signs. Per KDOT, all political campaign signs or…
<div style="color: #333;">Lawrence city commissioners approve affordable housing incentive policy</div>
Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday approved a policy that aims to standardize how the city chooses affordable housing projects to award incentives. Some projects receive funding through the city’s affordable housing trust fund, which comes from a special city sales…
<div style="color: #333;">City Commission approves data center zoning measures, water policies after hours of public comment; one person arrested</div>
After months of debate and more than two hours of public comment Wednesday, the Emporia City Commission unanimously approved the key zoning measures needed to move the proposed Flint Hills Digital Campus to its next phase, while emphasizing that no…
<div style="color: #333;">New Superintendent For Fort Scott School District: Zach Johnson</div>
Zach Johnson is the new superintendent for U.S.D. 234, Fort Scott’s school district, as of July 1. As a leader, Johnson hopes to help facilitate a collective vision that focuses on the success of all students, he said. “I believe…
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