As the federal shutdown threatened the largest food assistance programs in the country, local donors stepped up to save one local effort for at least several more weeks, leaders of the Lawrence Farmers Market said. Claire Wineman, the market manager for the Lawrence Farmers Market, said the ...
The opening of the Ballard Center’s new pantry comes at a critical moment — just as many Kansans may see a delay to food benefits amid a prolonged government shutdown. Even though no kids were at the Ballard Center on Friday, several cars were in its parking lot as volunteers were seen ...
Tuesday is when we will really find out if anything has changed since the Lawrence City Commission primary election held in August. But, it is fair to say there has been a change in the category of who is leading in the area of campaign contributions. First-time candidate Kristine Polian is ...
BOSTON (AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown. The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly took an extraordinary step Friday by filing a lawsuit directly with the Kansas Supreme Court alleging that Attorney General Kris Kobach was undermining constitutional powers assigned to the state’s governor. Kelly, a two-term Democrat, said the lawsuit was ...
On the cement floor of a workshop in East Lawrence, Tonatiuh Hernández Pacheco is binding reed shoots together to form a capsule-shaped object several feet tall. Behind him, a few people dip their hands into a pot of wheat paste, wetting strips of newspaper to cover inflated balloons, while ...
