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More than a dozen newly graduated Johnson County high schoolers are headed into the first steps of military service.
Making it official: In a celebratory sendoff event hosted by U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids Wednesday, 15 local students received certificates for their appointments to a U.S. service academy or academy prep program, including 6 from the Shawnee Mission area.
Kansas elected public officials expressed dismay Wednesday at the murder of 19 children and two teachers by a lone gunman in a classroom at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
For Sharice Davids, infrastructure and shipping opportunities in Johnson County are part of a multilayered effort to strengthen domestic supply chains. She underscored those and recent federal and local investment in these efforts in an appearance in Olathe Tuesday morning.
House Democrats are pushing the Internal Revenue Service to increase a tax break that would help truckers, Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. drivers and other transportation-related businesses cut their tax bills as they struggle with soaring gasoline prices.
President Joe Biden and the Food and Drug Administration are taking action to alleviate the ongoing baby formula shortage.
The head of the FDA on Thursday said the shortage should start to improve within a matter of days.
For months, families have been struggling to find ways to make sure they can feed their babies as they navigate the formula shortage.
Kansas is in line to receive as much as $69 million in additional federal support for small business development and entrepreneurship through a U.S. Treasury Department program used to support companies through the pandemic.
Leaders in Johnson County, Kansas, said securing a low-interest loan from the federal government to help pay for upgrades to a wastewater treatment facility will keep rates low for property owners in the county.
Survivors of a U.S. policy that forced Indigenous children to attend boarding schools where they were abused, or went missing, detailed to members of a U.S. House Natural Resources panel during a Thursday hearing the need for Congress to establish a truth commission dedicated to unveiling the traumas Indigenous children experienced at the schools.
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran and U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids offered input Thursday into development of a compromise bill designed to improve domestic manufacturing and the nation's supply chain that were exposed as competitively deficient during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two federal efforts — one in Congress and one at the U.S. Interior Department — could affect the search for marked and unmarked graves at the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway and Haskell University in Lawrence.