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Kansas City Public Library awarded $500,000 to expand literacy, teen programs
WDAF - Missouri
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June 10, 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Public Library (KCPL) has been awarded a $500,000 grant to expand its programs, the Carnegie Corporation of New York announced Tuesday. The KCPL is one of 11 public library systems to receive a grant from the...
Kansas faces $3.77B in Medicaid cuts, thousands to lose coverage under Trump's bill: report
WDAF - Missouri
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June 11, 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas will lose more than $3 billion in Medicaid funding, and thousands of Kansans will lose access to health insurance under Trump’s proposed bill, according to a new report. New modeling shows 13,000 fewer Kansans would be...
Kansas ranchers hit hard by cattle theft operations
KSNW - Kansas
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June 11, 2025
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Cattle rustling may sound like a thing of the past, but the act of stealing livestock is still alive and well in Kansas. Early Kansas history is steeped in stories of long cattle drives moving through the state along the Chisholm...
Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 6.13.25
Florida Politics
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June 13, 2025
Good Friday morning. Breaking overnight — “Israel strikes Iran: Explosions in Tehran, sirens in Israel” via Barak Ravid and Dave Lawler of Axios — The Israeli Air Force conducted a strike in Iran on Thursday, with explosions reported in Tehran,...
Vermont opposes Trump's military deployment in California
Bennington Banner - Vermont
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MONTPELIER – Attorney General Charity Clark announced she has filed an amicus brief with leaders from 21 states supporting California’s request for a court order blocking the President’s federalization and deployment of that state’s National...
Why law enforcement can't rely on 'overburdened' ICE
Salina Journal - Kansas
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The Kansas Bureau of Investigation will partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under a 287(g) agreement. KBI director Tony Mattivi stated that ICE is overwhelmed and unable to respond to individual illegal immigration cases,...
Legal fight: National lawsuits over Trump's executive orders impacting trans students, reproductive health involve Central Coast plaintiffs
SLO New Times - California
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The White House invited Atascadero Unified School District board member Rebekah Koznek to an executive order signing ceremony on March 31 because she's named in a 2024 complaint filed by Moms for Liberty and Young America's Foundation to stop...
New W. Kansas feedlot stirs up dust: more jobs vs. health risk
KWCH 12 - Kansas
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June 13, 2025
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A new feedlot in Pawnee County will be one of the largest in the state. However, the feedlot hasn’t been welcomed with open arms. The Kansas Sierra Club, along with Merrill Cauble, attended initial meetings to question the...
Our Voice: Americans, We aren’t in Kansas any More, And its Beginning Not to Feel Like America, Either
Ark Valley Voice - Colorado
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June 12, 2025
Gulag prisoners working on the white sea canal in the Soviet Union. Their crime — disagreeing with Joseph Stalin. Public domain Trump has stepped over the line. Again. It is by design. The obscene behavior has gone so far over the line that...
Judge says Trump takeover of California National Guard ‘illegal,’ orders return to governor
Louisiana Illuminator
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June 13, 2025
A federal judge in California late Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to relinquish command of 4,000 National Guard troops the president called to help contain Los Angeles protests over immigration raids. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer...
SBA Offers Relief to Kansas Small Businesses and Private Nonprofits Affected by Drought
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the availability of low interest federal disaster loans to small businesses and private nonprofit (PNP) organizations in Kansas to offset economic losses caused by drought...
Kansas opens second round of resilient food systems infrastructure grants
Sunflower State News - Kansas
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June 12, 2025
The Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) has opened applications for a second round of grants under the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) program. In 2023, the agency received nearly $6.46 million through a cooperative agreement with...
Paladin Collaborates With Some 30 Law Schools To Launch A Pro Bono Platform For Law Students
Above the Law
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June 12, 2025
Paladin, a legal technology company whose platform is used by law firms, in-house legal teams, and legal services organizations to match lawyers with pro bono opportunities and manage pro bono engagement, is today launching a pro bono platform...
Local lawmakers, leaders weigh in on Trump’s military deployment
Tacoma Weekly - Washington State
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WASHINGTON 6/12/2025 – This week, Rep. Adam Smith, Attorney General Nick Brown, and Lt. Gov. Denny Heck spoke out on the Trump Administration’s use of military force against protestors in California. On June 11 Smith joined Meet the Press Now to...
City of Marion to pay for violating Kansas Open Records Act following police raid on newspaper
WIBW 13 - Kansas
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June 12, 2025
MARION, Kan. (KWCH) - The City of Marion will have to pay for violating the Kansas Open Records Act. Last year, a judge ruled that the City of Marion violated the law following the raid on the Marion County Record newspaper. On Thursday, both...
This Kansas Town Advertised the World’s Largest Well. It Wasn’t.
Atlas Obscura
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June 12, 2025
Baudelaire: The city of Greensburg is a city in the southwest part of Kansas. It’s pretty small, less than twice the size of New York’s Central Park, and it’s a hundred miles west of Wichita. In the late 1800s, Greensburg was a small town in a...
AmeriCorps must restore funding to some states, but not Kansas
KSNT - Kansas
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June 12, 2025
KANSAS (KSNT) – The Trump administration must restore hundreds of millions of dollars in AmeriCorps grant funding and thousands of service workers in about two dozen states, a federal judge ruled June 5. But those jobs and funds won’t be restored...
Kansas launches new small business office to link entrepreneurs and state government
KCTV 5 - Missouri
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June 11, 2025
TOPEKA, Kan. (KCTV) - In an attempt to empower small businesses and connect entrepreneurs to state government, Kansas Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Commerce David Toland announced the launch of the Kansas Small Business Office. “While large...
City of Marion to pay for violating Kansas Open Meetings Act following police raid on newspaper
KWCH 12 - Kansas
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June 12, 2025
MARION, Kan. (KWCH) - The City of Marion will have to pay for violating the Kansas Open Meetings Act. Last year, a judge ruled that the City of Marion violated the law following the raid on the Marion County Record newspaper. On Thursday, both...
David Hogg Resigns, Malcolm Kenyatta Vows ‘Let’s Get Back To Work’ As DNC Reruns Leadership Elections
Blavity
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June 12, 2025
After months of intra-party wrangling and controversy, David Hogg and Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta are officially out as vice chairs of the Democratic National Committee, for the moment at least, following a ruling that their election...