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Wichita hopes to get homeless veteran population to functional zero by 2024
The City of Wichita is partnering with United Way of the Plains, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and Sedgwick County to effectively end veteran homelessness in Wichita by the end of next year. "Homelessness is a complex social issue,"…
WPD looking at changes to code after being called out to City Nightz multiple times in last year
Since June of 2022, the Wichita Police Department says it has responded to 13 different incidents at City Nightz including the shooting there over the weekend that injured 11 people. Of those 13 incidents, six were either simple battery, aggravated…
Chalk the Town colors Hutchinson with positivity
The City of Hutchison, Downtown Hutchison and Kara Vaughn hosted their second day of the 2023 Chalk the Town Event at Carey Park Sunday. The event was inspired by Vaughn’s viral TikTok video. The video gained over 30 million views…
Mission to consider updating tax abatement policy
The Mission City Council is set to consider an updated tax abatement policy later this month. This comes after two developers for separate apartment projects, 58 Nall and Milhaus, asked the city for tax abatements in the last year.... The…
Kansas audit of election security exposes strengths weaknesses of voting systems
The auditing division of the Kansas Legislature reported Thursday election officials in more than a dozen counties studied maintained adequate overall security practices and management of election computers but raised questions about the security of ballots and vote tabulation machines.…
Municipal Bond Trends for July 6, 2023
The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of MBIS "investment grade" yields. Every issuer's credit is different, and other financing sources may be available. To obtain comprehensive Financial Advisory services for your local government, contact your…
Desire for Interest on Deposits Is Bad for Main Street Banks
When the Fed started raising interest rates to fight inflation, the conventional wisdom was that it would be a boon for Main Street banks. They were expected to increase the rates they charged on loans faster than those paid to…
Anyone missing a pet in the Wichita area? This one is hard to miss Kansas police say
Andover police Lt. Joe Hardy got one of the strangest calls he’s had in his decades in law enforcement Wednesday. “I got a call that somebody had a giant, 10-foot-plus python in their yard,” he said. “I was thinking it…
Fed sees more rate hikes ahead but at a slower pace meeting minutes show
Almost all Federal Reserve officials at their June meeting indicated further policy tightening is likely, if at a slower pace than the rapid-fire rate increases that had characterized monetary policy since early 2022, according to minutes released Wednesday. Policymakers decided…
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