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Disability services for 46,000 Kansans at risk in leaked Trump budget cuts
Whit Downing, vice president of policy and programming at the Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities, works in her office. Before she found her calling as a disability rights advocate, she faced her own hardships getting access to crucial services.
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Authorities told this Kansas immigrant he was protected. ICE detained him anyway
Jose Madrid-Leiva is in ICE custody, even though he was due to receive immigration protections as a crime victim.
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Trans Student Says University of Kansas Fired Him For Talking to Media About Housing Rule Change
Students at the University of Kansas protested the removal of gender neutral spaces at a dormitory in February of this year.
7 days ago in: Featured, News no comments
Judge Hands Leavenworth, Kansas, A Court Loss as Battle Over Immigrant Detention Continues
The city of Leavenworth traded arguments with CoreCivic at a U.S. District Courthouse in Topeka.
1 week ago in: Featured, News no comments
‘Far from over’: Kansas schools still see COVID’s effects on learning and behavior
Susie Kelley, a fifth grade teacher at Harry Street Elementary School in Wichita, leads her class in a "Mindfulness Minute" breathing exercise. Educators say they are still seeing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on students, both academically and socially.
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Kansas has more dangerously hot days. That makes pregnancy riskier, report finds
download 1 - Kansas has more dangerously hot days. That makes pregnancy riskier, report finds
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Kansans on Medicaid and health care providers say federal funding cuts will hurt
Shelley Miles, a Lawrence resident, is concerned that cuts to Medicaid will cause her husband, Kirk, to lose access to assisted living. Kirk has dementia, and Miles said she couldn't afford his care without Medicaid.
2 weeks ago in: Featured, News no comments
Kansas parent sues 4 porn sites that her son visited despite age verification law
The landing page of an adult website prompts a user to click a button to indicate they are 18 or older. Age verification advocates say this does little to keep minors from accessing pornography online.
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In Kansas, a county jail carries out the majority of ICE detentions
The Chase County Detention Center has had a contract with the Department of Homeland Security to hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees for more than two decades. This year, people detained by ICE have made up the majority of people listed on the publicly viewable jail roster. That roster has been over capacity more than half the days in the last month.
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‘Adapt or die’: Farmers in western Kansas consider alternative crops to save water
Alex Millershaski stands next to a seed planter used for crops like wheat, corn and sorghum.
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