The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of MBIS “investment grade” yields. Every issuer’s credit is different. For rates that may be applicable to your municipality, contact our Municipal Advisors.
Former Winfield city manager Warren Porter, who left a little more than three years ago for a job out of state, has taken a new job in the area to be closer to family, he told the CourierTraveler on Thursday.
Porter began as city manager of Rose Hill on Monday. He was previously the director of finance for the city of Edmond, Okla. Before that, he was city manager of Winfield for 20 years before leaving in late 2016.
Read more: Cowley Courier Traveler.
Geary Community Hospital has been in trouble for a long time. At this point, this is not a disputed fact.
However, the hospital continues to try to drag itself out of the hole and it has requested help from the Geary County Commission.
Monday, Interim CEO Don Smithburg and several members of the hospital’s board of trustees attended a county commission meeting where the commission received an update on the hospital’s progress.
Read more: Junction City Union.
The Bel Aire City Council … adopted a legislative platform for 2020. Some of the issues discussed at the council workshop were sales tax, the tax lid, bonds, tax exemptions, concern for home rule and property-funded mandates, mental health and K-254 development.
Read more: Ark Valley News.
The new law requires all breathalyzers installed in vehicles for people with a history of DUI’s to take a photo of themselves while they’re blowing into the machine, making it much harder for them to falsify the results
Will White is the owner of Lifesafer in Wichita, a company that installs them. He thinks this change is long overdue.
“It’s actually a great idea if you think about it. I mean we’ve had so many horror stories about people having their kids start it or their friends start it, and there’s still someone that’s getting out onto the street that’s impaired and driving and could injure you, myself, our families, our children… Just anyone. And that’s very unsafe,” said White.
(Read more: KAKE – News)
Starting in March, city of Parsons utility customers can no longer get an extension on their bills.
The city made the announcement this week on its Facebook page, which generated lots of comments, mostly negative.
City utility bills — which include water, sewer, sanitation, stormwater and an Environmental Protection Agency compliance fee — are due on the 17th of each month. If not paid by then, the city adds a small late fee, and customers have until the 25th to pay the bill.
(Read more: Parsons Sun)
Charles Baughman is taking his neighborhood’s concerns over group homes to state lawmakers. Baughman met with Representative Henry Helgerson Wednesday afternoon to discuss the concentration of group homes in his neighborhood near 13th and Edgemoor.
Over the last seven years, he said at least five group homes moved into the neighborhood, several of them house young men in need of a helping hand. One of the houses is home to former foster boys who have aged out of the system.
Baughman said he’s not against having the homes in the area, he simply thinks there needs to be a limit to how many group homes can be established in a specific area.
“I think there is a need, I’m not against that, “said Baughman, “what I’m against is that you can’t take over an entire neighborhood.”
Baughman said he’s concerned for his kid’s safety after he caught some of the men getting too close.
(Read more: KAKE – News)
The interest rate table above illustrates recent changes in a sample of MBIS “investment grade” yields. Every issuer’s credit is different. For rates that may be applicable to your municipality, contact our Municipal Advisors.
Wichita has decided to reinstate a controversial parking enforcement practice that has been declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court covering four other states, city officials said.
Wichita has decided that it won’t scrap a method known as “chalking” tires, a means of establishing how long a car’s been parked in a particular space.
“After reviewing the opinion of the court, we have elected to . . . continue chalking tires to monitor parking,” said a statement from a city spokeswoman provided in response to Eagle questions. “Enforcing parking restrictions is crucial to our local economy – businesses depend upon the public having quick and convenient access to their locations.”
(Read more: Local News |)
Rural Kansas communities hope to see roads, internet and taxes addressed in the upcoming 2020 legislative session. But some voters in the state’s southwest corner are worried that these decade-old issues will again take a back seat.
On a Saturday morning at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Republican state House Reps. Marty Long, Russ Jennings and John Wheeler, plus GOP state Sen. John Doll talked to constituents about Medicaid, prison overcrowding and abortion.
Voters, however, voiced concern about what they saw as other, similarly pressing issues in rural Kansas.
(Read more: Rural Messenger)
200 W Douglas Ave, Suite 110
Wichita, KS 67202
(316) 264-3400
info@ransonfinancial.com
Registered municipal advisor with the MSRB and SEC
© 2026 Ranson Financial Group LLC. All rights reserved.
