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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City area has been selected by the Biden administration as one of 31 technology hubs across the nation as part of an initiative aiming to spur innovation and create jobs.
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Funds are set to flow into the Sunflower State to make the state’s electrical grid more resilient in the face of severe weather.
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has announced that the Sunflower State is set to receive funds from the U.S. Department of Energy to make the state’s electrical grid more robust and resilient during extreme weather events. The move is part of the Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue Portfolio.
Nearly a half-million dollars in federal funds are expected to help two local programs forge a new STEM-based job training initiative to help Kansas City-region job seekers find permanent high-wage careers in tech.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City region, from Columbia to Manhattan, is officially a tech hub beating more than 400 applications from across the country.
The city will be working towards becoming a hub for vaccine production as the federal government sees the region with a lot of potential. The area as a whole will be focused on a large section of eastern Kansas and western Missouri from Manhattan to Columbia.
TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids said weeks of discord and chaos over selection of a new speaker of the U.S. House demonstrated the necessity of taking a bipartisan approach to congressional business.
Davids, the 3rd District Democrat, said extreme viewpoints pushed by some members of Congress prevented action of legislation tied to support of Israel and Ukraine, the resolution of spending disputes, and work to strengthen the nation’s economy.
Overland Park, Kan. (KCTV) - The Jewish Community Center in Overland Park hosted the 11th Jewish Culture Fest on Sunday. The event highlights the best of Jewish culture, but also featured a special service on Sunday evening in light of the situation in Israel.
“Quite simply, being together is everything,” said Rabbi David Glickman of Congregation Beth Shalom. “Feeling loved by one another and giving love to one another is everything right now.”
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Three Kansas City-area Congress members have introduced legislation to make the Quindaro Townsite a national historic landmark.
Located in Kansas City, Kansas, Quindaro was once a thriving town and a key stop on the Underground Railroad.
The bicameral Indigenous Peoples’ Day Act to replace Columbus Day as a federal holiday and designate the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day has been reintroduced in Congress.
The legislation was reintroduced by Representatives Sharice Davids (KS-03), Norma J. Torres (CA-35), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), and Suzan DelBene (WA-01), along with Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM).
The Indigenous Peoples’ Day Act has garnered 56 cosponsors in the House of Representatives.
The Kansas City Women’s Business Center and others across the U.S. could soon see more money and support coming into the national female entrepreneurship network.
Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Johnson County resubmitted the Women’s Business Center Improvement Act, which seeks to increase the program’s funding and impact for the first time in 35 years.
TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids’ agriculture tour in her eastern Kansas district included a Miami County no-till crop farm, a poultry and livestock operation in Anderson County, the Johnson County organic vegetable business, a Franklin County cooperative and a community educational farm in Wyandotte County.
It was a stop at the Garnett dairy owned by Christi Ratliff that put into better focus the detrimental economic forces that come into play if Congress didn’t thoughtfully, promptly renew the nation’s five-year farm bill this year.