Kansas will soon have a system to decontaminate N95 masks crucial to protecting health care workers from COVID-19, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Monday. Called the Battelle Critical Care Decontamination System, the technology — which Kansas received from the Federal Emergency Management Agency — will allow the state to safely reuse up to 80,000 masks per day once the system is fully operational. A single mask ...
In perhaps the most unique student election in university history — conducted electronically amid a global pandemic — University of Kansas students voted in a new student body president and vice president over the weekend. Apramay Mishra, a junior from Lawrence, and Grant Daily, a junior from Wichita, were elected as student body president and vice president, respectively, with nearly 80% of the 2,355 votes ...
Brandon Holland, son of Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, filed Friday to run for a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives. Holland, 31, is seeking election as a Democrat to the 10th District seat currently held by Rep. Eileen Horn, D-Lawrence. Horn, who began serving in 2017 after being appointed to the seat over Brandon Holland, announced Friday that she wouldn't seek another term. Holland has lived in ...
State budget experts earlier this week suggested Kansas will face a $1.37 billion shortfall over the next two fiscal years as a result of economic hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday called on the federal government to make direct and flexible aid to states a priority in coming COVID-19-related stimulus packages. Without it, she said, Kansas will be forced to make ...
The University of Kansas will soon have $7.5 million in federal stimulus funds to distribute directly to students who have faced financial hardships as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chancellor Douglas Girod announced Thursday that KU will award the money in two ways: to students receiving Pell Grants — and therefore already identified by the federal government as having a demonstrated need — and to ...
After weeks of delay, the Kansas Department of Labor is now able to process claims for an extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits generated from federal coronavirus stimulus packages, Gov. Laura Kelly announced. As a result, the department on Thursday will process over $3.4 million in extra benefits claims. The news comes as much-needed relief for thousands of Kansas struggling to make ends meet amid the ...