Aviation stakeholders from across Kansas will assemble to discuss jobs, infrastructure and emerging technologies as part of Aviation Day at the Capitol from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday. The event is sponsored by the Kansas Department of Transportation and the Kansas Commission on Aerospace Education.
Kansas City police officer, suspect suffer minor injuries A police officer and suspect were taken to the hospital with minor injuries after the driver of a fleeing vehicle intentional hit a police vehicle in Kansas City, Missouri, authorities said. The incident began when officers responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle at a La Quinta Inn, said Donna Drake, spokeswoman for the police department.
• The Leavenworth City Commission will meet for a study session at 6 p.m. today at Leavenworth City Hall, 100 N.
A discarded cigarette is being blamed on a fire at a Leavenworth home, a Fire Department spokesman said. The fire was reported at 4:50 p.m.
Jill Biden has turned Valentine’s Day into a lesson for second-graders. The first lady and longtime teacher had Washington elementary school students design Valentine’s Day hearts that are hanging in the East Wing of the White House.
Democrats sued Kansas officials on Monday over a Republican redistricting law that costs the state’s only Democrat in Congress some of the territory in her Kansas City-area district that she carries by wide margins in elections.
Kansas principal told to apologize over white privilege film A Kansas high school principal who showed a four-minute video about white privilege to his staff was told to apologize after a teacher complained that the video was offensive. A school board member told Tim Hamblin, principal at Derby High School, to apologize to his staff after he showed the video during an in-service day last month, KMUW reported.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers was in a familiar spot earlier this month when Republican legislators sent him a bill that would have banned anti-racist teachings in schools. For the 66th time since taking office in 2019, he pulled out his veto pen.
Top Kansas Republicans appeared to get the new congressional district lines they wanted last week through horse-trading in the Legislature. Then, hours after the map became law, the GOP leader who supposedly struck the deal seemed to go back on it.
Republican state lawmakers across the U.S. are trying to require schools to post all course materials online so parents can review them, part of a broader national push by the GOP for a sweeping parents bill of rights ahead of the midterm congressional elections.