Brad Keselowski did before buying into Jack Roush’s race team was check the years remaining on the contract for Chris Buescher, the driver he was inheriting with his purchase. He was pleased to learn that Buescher was locked down.
WICHITA, Kansas — Kansas finds itself in a budding nursing home crisis. A lack of workers and money troubles forced dozens of nursing homes and assisted living centers to close their doors during the pandemic, and more look doomed to follow.
TOPEKA, KAN. – A man was sentenced today to 69 months in prison for engaging in a wire fraud scheme.
Last week, Emporia State University professor Max McCoy penned a column that began, “I may be fired for writing this.” McCoy, Emporia State’s sole journalism professor and advisor to the student newspaper, was among 33 faculty members laid off as part of a large-scale restructuring in response to declining enrollment. His column had criticized the move and university leadership.
Drought is taking its toll on western Kansas cornfields this year. And all that dead corn could mean higher prices for products that depend on the state’s grain supply, such as ethanol-infused gasoline and corn-fed beef.
has earned the Platinum PLUS (Proven Leaders in Unmatched Service) Certified Technician Award. The award is the most elite technical service designation awarded by Reinke.
jlevy@kletc.org HUTCHINSON – Twenty-one new law enforcement officers graduated from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) on July 29 at a ceremony held in the KLETC Integrity Auditorium. Officer Spencer Putman of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks was the graduating class president.
Last winter, a devastating wildfire broke out across western Kansas destroying stockpiles of grain and hay, leaving ranchers without food for their livestock. Just days later, semi-trucks stacked high with hay bales could be seen on the interstate coming from every direction as other farmers and ranchers donated supplies to help their neighbors.
Recently, President Biden escalated the inflammatory rhetoric that inundates American politics to a whole new level. In prepared remarks, President Biden referred to President Trump’s voters as “MAGA Republicans” and called the America First movement “semi-fascism,” in effect smearing the good character of almost half the country and demonizing his political opponents. Mr. President, while I am a “MAGA” supporter, I am by no means a fascist or a threat to this nation. I am a Fredrick Douglass Republican, I am a friend of President Trump, and I am a prayerful American Christian woman working to unite humanity as the one blood human race.
The news coming out of Emporia last week, with at least 30 members of the faculty of Emporia State University fired on one day, was terribly sad. Not just because the firings were a blow to the education of hundreds of ESU students, but also because it reflects a failure to understand just what, realistically speaking, higher education in Kansas should be all about.