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U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-3rd Dist., has released a report on how Kansas residents can save on health care costs, due to a federal health care law that passed earlier this month.
Rep. Davids was joined by Molly Gotobed, a Kansas City, Kansas, resident, at Reach Healthcare Foundation to share information that would help residents take advantage of the new provisions.
OLATHE, Kan. (KCTV) - Representative Sharice Davids visited the Olathe Police and Fire Departments Wednesday in an effort to tour two public safety projects she sponsored for federal funding.
Davids spent time in the police department's Mobile Command Unit and the fire department's Mobile Integrated Health program.
LENEXA — Purple Heart recipient and former U.S. Army sniper Kyle Prellberg shook his head in amazement Tuesday when considering the struggle to enact federal law extending health care to veterans exposed to emissions from open-air burn pits and other pollutants while deployed overseas.
"I've lived around burn pits," he said. "Burn pits were everywhere. It's just the way we did business."
Congress approved legislation on Friday aimed to combat climate change, reduce the cost of prescription drugs and raise taxes on corporations, as Democrats completed the last legislative step in an arduous push to deliver on several pieces of President Joe Biden's policy agenda.
Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas and Reps. Emanuel Cleaver and Cori Bush of Missouri joined the Democratic majority to pass the bill by a 220-207 vote. Every Kansas and Missouri Republican voted against the measure, in a party-line vote.
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly and Representative Sharice Davids visited Children's Mercy Park Thursday as part of Kelly's "Prosperity on the Plains" tour.
In June, FIFA announced that Kansas City, Missouri, will be one of the host cities for the 2026 World Cup.
Learn more in the World Cup to KC section on KCTV5.com
A press release from the governor's office today calls that "a huge economic boost for Kansas won through bi-state cooperation."
The locations of lead service lines seem like the sort of thing someone would know, Congresswoman Sharice Davids said Thursday.
But as cities and counties across the U.S. grew, water utilities didn't keep track of them all.
The Bi-State Reinvestment Corridor, a project looking to make sustainability and infrastructure improvements on both sides of the state line, has gained $5.6 million in grant funding, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II announced Wednesday.
The Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grant from the United States Department of Transportation will be used to fund planning for the corridor, which stretches a 24-mile, zero-emissions transit route from Village West in Wyandotte County, Kansas, to Independence, Missouri.
President Biden signed into law today a $280-million spending package for American semiconductor manufacturing.
The investment is designed to make the nation more competitive with China.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids believes the law may help create new jobs in the Kansas City region.
Davids met with local technology and manufacturing leaders Tuesday to discuss how to make the most of the CHIPS legislation.
The National Science Foundation awarded $1,487,766 to Johnson County Community College's STEM Scholars Program.
Sharice Davids, Kansas 3rd District State Representative, announced Thursday, July 21 the program will help assist high achieving, low income students with financial need pursuing degrees in STEM.
The project hopes to provide 54 students with scholarships in the next six years for associate degrees with plans to continue on to a four year university.
Monday and Tuesday this week, the Olathe Public Schools Foundation and groups of volunteers are preparing for school supplies drive distribution by stuffing more than 2,000 backpacks with supplies needed to head back to school.
Throughout the summer, the foundation has been accepting donations through public drive drop boxes and by check to its annual school supplies drive. The foundation usually spends about $30,000 in all on the program on top of whatever is donated during the summer.