In accordance with Executive Order 20-30, and in coordination with the proclamation signed by President Joe Biden, Governor Laura Kelly has ordered flags throughout the State of Kansas to be flown at half-staff starting immediately until sunset on December 9, 2021 in honor of the passing of Senator Bob Dole.
The road that led incoming mayor Courtney Shipley to local politics was quite literally a road. Shipley, who lives on Kasold Drive, said she first started going to public input meetings hosted by the city in 2015 amid the debate over the redesign of a section of Kasold Drive that runs directly in front of her house. The public meetings and debate about the road project went on for more than a year and led her to a City Commission meeting, where she would become a regular attendee. “I got interested in other stuff they were discussing,” Shipley said, adding that commission discussions can sometimes span multiple meetings. “And so that’s why I started just coming every week.”
Source: LJWorld.com
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For the first time in 30 years, the Kellogg highway isn’t under construction. “You’re welcome,” joked Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple, the morning after the city tweeted that there are no current construction projects on the busy highway from its western edge at 119th Street to the K-96 interchange on the east side. … Tom Hein of the Kansas Department of Transportation characterized it as a pause in an ongoing improvement process, rather than a mission accomplished. “This is a respite, yes,” he said. “There’s always going to be a little bit of maintenance going on, but as far as big projects and what we’ve been experiencing the last three or four years with the east Kellogg stuff, we don’t have anything right now in the near future.”
Source: Wichita Eagle
The Kansas Supreme Court sought to bring clarity to prosecution of driving-under-the-influence offenses Friday by unanimously granting district courts authority to view prior DUI convictions in Missouri as comparable to the Kansas law. The court examined the Kansas Legislature’s modification of state law in 2018 aimed at accounting for DUIs from other states. The justices said lawmakers sought to eliminate an “identical-to-or-narrower-than” test used in Kansas to determine whether alleged DUI offenders should be charged with a misdemeanor or felony. The court determined Kansas legislators wanted prosecutors in this state to include out-of-state violations of laws broader than Kansas’ infractions, specifically Missouri’s driving-while-intoxicated statute.
Source: The Lawrence Times
Marysville Main Street will have fundraisers this month to help purchase a new wireless speaker system for downtown. … The envisioned area for the speaker system is Fifth Street to 10th Street along Broadway. The Marysville Community Foundation board has agreed to fund up to $3,000 in match money if Marysville Main Street raises $3,000 by the end of 2021. Marysville City Council recently voted to contribute $10,000 for the system. The estimated total cost for the 15-speaker system is $35,600. Marysville Main Street officials hope the system will be installed in the fall of 2022. They said the goal is to create a welcoming environment to tourists, shoppers and others downtown.
Source: The Marysville Advocate
The Sedgwick County, Kansas, Board of Commissioners has unanimously voted to end the adoption of a dual plumbing code and adopt only the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials’ (IAPMO) 2021 Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC®), with county-specific amendments. Soon after the action by the Board of Commissioners, the city of Wichita also unanimously voted to adopt the 2021 UPC and align its plumbing code with the surrounding county. For years Sedgwick County adopted the UPC, but in October 2016 the board wanted to see if adopting two plumbing codes would be better for the plumbing contractors, home builders, plumbing installers and ultimately residents of unincorporated Sedgwick County and other smaller jurisdictions … By reviewing permit applications submitted and tracked by the Metropolitan Area Building and Construction Department, it was found that the UPC was chosen 92% of the time. Given this overwhelming evidence in favor of the UPC, the Board of Appeals of Plumbers and Gas Fitters unanimously voted to return to a single plumbing code, and only adopt the UPC.
Source: The Miami County Republic
Bob Dole, a son of the Kansas Dust Bowl who survived a crippling barrage of Nazi fire on an Italian hillside to lead his party in the U.S. Senate, but who fell short of his highest ambition, the presidency, died Sunday. He was 98. Proud, uncommonly driven and possessed of a dark, self-effacing wit, Dole went to Washington a rock-hard Great Plains conservative but evolved into a pragmatic master of legislative compromise.
Source: Kansas City Star
The Biden administration is readying a proposal to shore up the cybersecurity of the U.S. water supply, a system maintained by thousands of organizations with sometimes glaring vulnerabilities to hackers. The plan broadens a White House initiative to persuade key industrial companies to upgrade technology for detecting cyberattacks. U.S. officials hope water utilities will analyze and voluntarily report such data to help authorities monitor threats to different types of critical infrastructure. The White House previously said it would expand the program to water utilities this year as part of a push to prevent hackers from breaking into the increasingly digitized control systems of industrial firms.
Source: WSJ
It’s not exactly farm to fork, but it’s close. By buying bread made in Arlington, jelly cooked in Hutchinson and coffee roasted in Inman, consumers are not only getting a product produced in Kansas, but they are keeping jobs in Reno County and helping the Kansas economy. … “The economic impact, even of those small sales, trickles down into the local economy,” said Frank Choriego, associate director of the Kansas Small Business Development Center at Wichita State University. If 500 people spend $100 locally, that’s $50,000 coming back into Hutchinson and Reno County, Choriego said. At least 80 to 90% of those dollars would stay in the general area because those things are produced locally by local folks with local products. And he said, not only will those dollars stay locally, but much of the money will be re-spent locally. The money will go full circle, from one Kansan to another.
Source: Hutch News
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