Vote on Kansas health chief allows GOP to air COVID beefs Conservative Republicans’ frustrations over how Kansas handled the coronavirus pandemic are complicating Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s efforts to keep her top public health administrator in place.
Reflecting on ourselves can be one of the most difficult things to do. Looking at our reflections can often be just as hard. Proverbs tells us that as water reflects the face, a person’s heart reflects the person. There have been, and there will continue to be, times in my life where I don’t want to reflect on myself. I’d rather just keep going along as I am, blissfully unaware of what others might be seeing or experiencing from me. Does it really matter what other people think of me?
Sanctions on Russia are starting to wreak havoc on global trade, with potentially devastating consequences for energy and grain importers while also generating ripple effects across a world still struggling with pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions.
The Basehor Community Library recently asked local citizens and organizations to create and donate baby quilts and blankets to be donated to the Kansas Children’s Service League as part of its Healthy Families program. The library serves as a community collection point and sends those blankets to the organization as the completed ones are received.
Countries are snapping up the rights to “Servant of the People”–a comedy series starring the Ukrainian president, as the Ukrainian president. Back in 2015, former actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy played Vasiliy Petrovich Goloborodko, a high school teacher propelled to the presidency after a student’s video of him denouncing official corruption in Ukraine goes viral.
Leavenworth County commissioners plan to hire a human resources director. The county government previously had a human resources director.
A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper drew his pistol on a Kansas legislator stopped for speeding when the lawmaker abruptly got out of his car holding his cell phone, the trooper said in a statement made public Wednesday.
Missouri officials proposed to cancel public contracts with Russian entities and pull Russian products from stores as they joined a growing contingent of U.S. states targeting the country over its war against Ukraine.
A Leavenworth man has been sentenced to two years in prison for firing shots into a residence, a prosecution official said. Darvin E.Thomas, 27, was sentenced Feb.
A Leavenworth man has been sentenced to three years in prison for pointing a gun at a police officer, according to a prosecution official. Chase Garnett, 24, was sentenced Feb.