Federal funding for a program that helps small and mid-size manufacturers in Kansas and several other states will return, at least temporarily.
On Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Sharice David's office announced that funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, or MEP,...
By Mary Sanchez
Evenezer Cortez Martinez is back on U.S. soil, landing in Kansas City Tuesday afternoon after being deported.
The DACA recipient and Kansas father of three feared that he wouldn’t be able to return from Mexico, a country he...
Johnson County area economists and financial advisers are counseling patience and a longer-term outlook amid this week's stock market volatility that followed President Donald Trump's announcement of global tariffs.
Last Wednesday, the president unveiled plans to impose a baseline 10%...
By Mary Sanchez
Evenezer Cortez Martinez wanted to pay respects to a beloved grandfather who died last fall.
He ended up deported, sent back to Mexico, a country the 39-year-old Kansas husband and father left at the age of 4.
“Everything was...
Roughly 100 protesters had a clear message for Sen. Jerry Moran on Thursday morning: ”Do your job,” they chanted.
The group lined the sidewalks leading into the K-State Olathe campus ahead of the Agricultural Business Council of Kansas City’s March...
The Trump administration's promised cuts to the federal government have trickled down to decision makers in Johnson County, leading officials put on hold projects scheduled for this year that would have been funded in part with federal dollars.
At the...
A panel of former and current federal employees painted a picture of chaos, waste and inefficiency in the wake of widespread firings at federal agencies initiated by the Department of Governmental Efficiency effort led by billionaire Elon Musk.
The panel,...
By Calen Moore
Critics of actions by president Donald Trump shouted down Republican Sen. Roger Marshall at a town hall meeting in rural Kansas Saturday, causing the senator to end the meeting and leave as people shouted, booed and said...
By Noah Taborda
When Maria Loconsolo didn’t get an email terminating her employment on Valentine’s Day, she regained a smidge of hope that she would avoid the mass firings of federal employees occurring nationwide.
But since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in...
Hundreds of Johnson Countians upset by the opening weeks of President Trump's second term gathered this week at an event organized by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas in the first significant show of local opposition to the...
Though a federal judge has temporarily blocked the order and the White House's original memo has been rescinded, the Trump administration’s proposed freeze on federal grants, loans and other funding streams has left many local governments, organizations and community...
By Sam Zeff, Dan Margolies, Kavahn Mansouri
On his first day in office, President Trump issued pardons to about 1,500 January 6 rioters who were charged with participating in the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Of those defendants, 46 are...
