Serving Kansas City (Wyandotte County) Kansas for over 50 years!
by William Crum
This is the 40th year of the Kansas City Renaissance Festival.
The festival has outdone itself with a lot of new food items on the menu.
They still sell turkey legs, and during a year of the festival, an estimated 50,000 turkey legs will be sold, officials said.
The Kansas City Renaissance Festival will open on Labor Day, and it runs for six weekends, Sept. 3 to Oct. 16, at 126th and State Avenue.
For more information, visit www.kcrenfest.com/.
Wyandotte County is under a flash flood watch from 7 p.m. Aug. 25 through 10 a.m. Aug. 26, according to the National Weather Service.
It is part of a wide area under the flash flood watch. Some areas may experience flooding because of the rain that fell last night and earlier today, according to the weather service.
With a frontal boundary stalling over east-central Kansas into central Missouri, there is the potential of more storms tonight, the weather service said.
Widespread rainfall amounts of 1 to 2 inches are likely, with locally higher amounts possible, the weather service said.
Residents are asked to monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action if flash flood warnings are issued, according to the weather service.
For more weather information, visit www.weather.gov or listen to a weather radio.
Letter from Governor Sam Brownback in response to a letter from Tom Bell of the Kansas Hospital Association:
I appreciate the dialogue about the best way to address a very real problem, our struggling rural hospitals. Last I week I put forward a solution to eliminate the 4 percent Medicaid reduction by using the provider tax to draw down additional federal dollars which could then be redistributed back to the providers.
In response, the Kansas Hospital Association has put forward an alternative. Their option is to expand Obamacare and greatly increase the size and scope of KanCare, a program they say isn’t working well. Why would we expand a program they claim still has room for improvement? And why would we expand eligibility to able-bodied single adults when disabled Kansans are still waiting for services? At the end of the day, every big government program is about one thing, taking money from the many and giving it to the few. Is that really in the best interests of all Kansans?
I believe the citizens of our state would be better served by taking the following actions: 1. Eliminate the 4 percent Medicaid reduction by drawing down additional federal funding (something that has been done several times before without objection); 2. Continue working to eliminate the waiting lists for disabled Kansans; 3. Keep working hard to improve KanCare as the managed care organization contracts go back out to bid this fall; 4. Allow Dr. Colyer’s Rural Health Working Group to complete their work and develop proposals; and 5. Prepare to come to work in January for the 2017 legislative session with proposals that serve the best interests of all Kansans.
I very much look forward to that discussion.
Sam Brownback
Governor
