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MERRIAM, Kan. — United States representatives Sharice Davids, Emmanuel Cleaver II and Jake LaTurner are calling on the National Park Service to incorporate local history into the Brown v. Board of Education’s National Historic Park during the 70th anniversary year of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
In the Oct. 8 letter, the representatives called attention to the 1949 decision in the Webb v. School District No. 90 (Webb) case, which took place in what is currently known as Merriam, Kansas.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, Kansas’ only Democratic member of Congress, signed onto bipartisan legislation introduced Tuesday meant to protect vanishing grassland habitats.
Davis is co-sponsoring the North American Grasslands Conservation Act with a bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina, Pennsylvania and California.
With the current Farm Bill expiring today, Monday, September 30, Representative Sharice Davids called on Congress to unite and pass a new bipartisan Farm Bill that supports Kansas farmers and rural communities. Davids stressed that action is crucial to safeguarding the future of Kansas agriculture.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Improvements to Kansas City's mail delivery are not happening fast enough. That's the message from five bipartisan members of Congress on both sides of the state line.
KMBC 9 Investigates has pushed for nearly a year to get answers from the United States Postal Service about slow or missing mail in the Kansas City region.
Yesterday, Representative Sharice Davids joined a Shawnee family to pick up their children from day care and discussed her bipartisan Affordable Childcare Act with them. The bill aims to ease the financial burden on parents by doubling three different tax credits, directly increasing their savings. With a report showing that working parents are spending 24 percent of their income on child care, Davids is advocating for urgent measures to reduce these costs.
Representative Sharice Davids visited a family in Kansas City, KS on September 4 to see how new federal tax credits are helping Kansans reduce their utility costs. Kansans who make eligible energy-efficient upgrades to their homes may qualify for these tax credits, which have already saved over 3.4 million American families more than $8 billion. These savings stem from the Inflation Reduction Act, which Davids was the sole supporter of among Kansas’ congressional delegation.
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly and Mayor Tyrone Garner joined federal officials Thursday to celebrate a $62.6 million infrastructure appropriation to replace the 18th Street bridge over the Kansas River near some of the oldest neighborhood and business sites in Kansas City, Kansas.
The federal award to the Kansas Department of Transportation was announced in July, but work on the project was expected to begin next year and the new bridge should be operational in 2027.
On August 28, Representative Sharice Davids announced that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded $394,310 to Garnett Municipal Airport for runway reconstruction. This funding comes from the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program, which was supported by the bipartisan infrastructure law. Davids, a member of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, was the only Kansas delegate to vote for the law.
Yesterday, Representative Sharice Davids led a discussion with local high school students about mental health issues impacting nearly one in five teens annually. As the school year starts, Davids is committed to enhancing mental health resources and policies in Kansas, aiming to provide every student with the support needed to succeed both academically and personally.
In 2024, $11 million in federal funds are headed to Johnson County municipalities for various projects.