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State legislators are starting the new session the same way the 2020 session ended — with a pandemic raging throughout the state.
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State senator who was first elected in 1976 to the Kansas House, recalls battles won and lost as a Democrat in the statehouse.
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The increases come amid worker shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It's has strained hospitals’ capacity and word down employees.
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In "Severance," published in 2018, a fictional pandemic causes a zombie apocalypse. It also exposes the not-so-fictional anxieties of life in a late capitalist world. Two years later, we're all "fevered."
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Charles Curtis was a leading voice in the fight for women's suffrage. He also orchestrated the breakup of tribal government and communal land in what is now the state of Oklahoma.
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"We may not know the full impact right now, but we're going to see it in five years," says Topeka Police Chief Bill Cochran.
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The Topeka Police Department is part of new program teaching peer intervention, and an explanation of the legal policy of qualified immunity.
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Fred Seaman founded Seaman High School 100 years ago. He launched the first-ever “Klan ticket” in Topeka elections, newspapers reported at the time.
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A roll of toilet paper and videos remembering loved ones lost are featured in a new collection.
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A Kansas City nonprofit is working to amplify the voices and power of Black women, a wellness solutions company in Iowa sets up in Kansas City with rapid COVID-19 screenings, and a history librarian explains current efforts to gather and collect pandemic artifacts.
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Nursing homes that don't have the machines and kits need to send their samples to private labs, but some say the prices are impossible to afford long-term.
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When KU researchers asked counties how they were doing, most had very little gear on hand to collect samples from sick patients.