A special garden space allowing young gardeners to explore through the five senses is being developed at Bluejacket Park in Eudora. The garden is an outdoor area designed to stimulate a child’s five senses: sight, smell, touch, taste and sound. These types of gardens often include plants with a variety of textures, scents and colors, along with elements like wind chimes, water features and seating areas to ...
In this studio in a Lawrence strip mall, when it's class time, the students are buzzing, whirring and humming with excitement. On a typical day, one of them might be learning how to tell whether something is red or blue. Another might be practicing how to thread rings onto a stake or climb a ladder. The students are robots, and their teachers — a group of Lawrence middle schoolers at the Level Up Robots ...
After President Donald Trump directed federal funding cuts to more than 1,000 public media outlets nationwide, Kansas Public Radio is sounding the alarm. On Thursday evening, Trump signed an executive order aiming to eliminate federal funding for PBS and NPR, accusing the networks of biased reporting and spreading “left-wing propaganda.” The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or CPB, ...
Cars honked their horns and hundreds of protesters lined Lawrence's Massachusetts Street singing "This Land is Your Land" on Thursday as a nationwide — and worldwide — day of anti-Trump and pro-labor protests kicked off. More than 400 people gathered downtown to protest a long list of moves by the Trump administration — such as the elimination of thousands of federal jobs, aggressive immigration raids and ...
Following the loss of federal funding for an educational program for local teachers, the Douglas County Historical Society has launched a fundraising campaign to help offset the financial shortfall, and museum directors fear how future funding cuts will affect their programs. The Douglas County Historical Society was informed on April 8 that an already approved grant from the federal Institute of Museum and ...
As members of Congress are being asked to find $880 billion in cuts to health spending, Medicaid advocates are warning of tough choices ahead for states like Kansas — choices that could cost them billions of dollars or cause thousands of people to lose their health coverage. In February, House Republicans passed a budget resolution that instructs the committee that handles health care spending to identify at ...