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Six public transit projects in Wyandotte County totaling over $1.25 million will receive federal funding, according to an announcement from Gov. Laura Kelly.
The Unified Government grants were part of a $13.2 million total with 48 public transit projects across the state of Kansas, according to a news release.
Happy Monday from YOUR KC Morning Show!
On the show today, we hear from Representative Sharice Davids ahead of the KC Climate Action Summit, happening April 9th, at Johnson County Community College!
We wrap with an SKC Sports Thing, with Nate Bukaty, co-host of The Border Patrol on Sports Radio 810, WHB.
As gas and oil CEOs line up to testify over allegations of price-gouging, Congresswoman Sharice Davids has again called for the suspension of the federal gas tax.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-3rd Dist., made a friendly wager on the NCAA championship game with Rep. David Price of North Carolina.
According to Rep. Davids' office, she bet barbecue. Rep. Davids enjoyed the Hershey's Kit Kats she received from a fellow legislator in her bet on the University of Kansas against Villanova on Saturday.
Rep. Sharice Davids, who represents Kansas' 3rd Congressional District, and Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania have made a friendly wager ahead of the University of Kansas vs. Villanova University Final Four game.
"I'm so confident that I'm willing to bet and bring in some KC barbecue, all the way from Kansas," Davids said in a social media video.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to cap insulin costs at $35 a month for people with private insurance and Medicare.
The Affordable Insulin Now Act caps cost-sharing for a month's supply of insulin products at $35 or 25% of a plan's negotiated price, whichever is less, starting in 2023.
In the early morning hours on Friday, Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids took a tour of Growing Futures Early Education Center in Overland Park.
The nonprofit organization run through Head Start serves 223 children up to the age of 5 and their families in Johnson County by providing early childhood education, health nutrition, social services, mental health, parent education and more.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas endorsed bipartisan government transparency legislation Tuesday that would reduce opportunities for insider trading by members of Congress by requiring certain assets to be placed in a blind trust.
Federal funding could help jumpstart a project to upgrade flood containment systems along Turkey Creek.
Part of a federal $1.5 trillion spending bill will include a $500 thousand earmark for a design project to determine possible solutions for ongoing flooding issues along the creek. Congresswoman Sharice Davids spearheaded the effort to include the funding measure in the bill.
U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids announced the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded a total of $4,113,744 to two Head Start programs in Kansas' 3rd District.