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Dodge City Daily Globe
14 Aug, 2019
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‘We’ve had this fear for years’: After Tyson fire, cattle producers look for options as prices tumble
Cattle producers braced themselves for tumbling market prices and ongoing uncertainty over the loss of meat processing operations at the Tyson plant in Holcomb.
Govs. Kelly, Parson pledge to transform KC-area economic incentive gravy train – News – The Topeka Capital-Journal – Topeka, KS

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly denounced job growth results of $330 million in economic incentives handed out in the past decade to lure jobs back and forth across the state border cutting through metropolitan Kansas City.

Kansas Department for Children and Families ready to choose from 55 proposals for Family First programs

The Kansas Department for Children and Families is preparing to award grants through a new federal program for services aimed at keeping children out of the child welfare system.

KDOT announces impaired driving enforcement campaign in place Aug. 14-Sept. 2

Officials from the Kansas Department of Transportation announced an enforcement campaign to keep drunk drivers off the road.

KDHE secretary making push for emphasis on quality of Kansas drinking water

The top environmental and health official in the administration of Gov. Laura Kelly said understandable public attention on sustaining sufficient quantities of water in the agriculture-heavy state led to lack of focus on the quality of drinking water.

Holcomb plant down indefinitely after fire, but Tyson promises to continue weekly pay for employees

First responders fought and a community rallied this weekend in the wake of a fire that for hours burned through Finney County's largest employer, Tyson Fresh Meats.

Kansas Lottery transfers record $173 million to state treasury

Kansas owned and operated casino gambling operations and the state lottery generated $173 million for Kansas' state treasury in the last fiscal year, an increase of nearly $2 million from the previous year and a $10 million surge from two years ago.

Kansas spending millions to send 360 inmates to private Arizona prison

The Kansas Department of Corrections announced it will send 360 inmates from Kansas to a privately run prison in Arizona by the end of the year.

Native Kansan Marlin Fitzwater talks ‘Storm’

Marlin Fitzwater, former White House press secretary for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, will receive the Kansas State University Alumni Association's Alumni Excellence Award on Oct. 17.

GOP’s Pruitt jumps into Senate race

Kansans could be seeing U.S. Senate candidate Bryan Pruitt, 47, at an Optimist Club meeting, a Rotary Club lunch or at a county Republican Party function.

KDOT investing $5 million in program to repair city, county bridges

The Kansas Department of Transportation pledged $5 million in the current fiscal year to assist cities and counties with repairs to the 3,800 bridges across the state in poor condition or structurally insufficient to meet modern weight and vehicle requirements.

KDHE’s Lee Norman: Abstinence-only policy not remedy to unwanted pregnancies

The top administrator at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said abstinence-only education programs were inadequate to sufficiently reduce unwanted pregnancies and moderate the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returning to Kansas for Landon Lecture

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will participate during September in the Kansas State University lecture series honoring the late Kansas Republican politician Alf Landon.

House GOP seeks expansion of mental health services in wake of mass shootings

The Kansas House's top Republican responded to a series of mass shootings by proposing Wednesday alleviation of a shortage of mental health personnel in rural areas and the expansion of a mental health program in K-12 schools.