51st District Representative Ron Highland Kansas Legislature photo
With the veto session beginning Monday, 51st District Representative Ron Highland of Wamego is looking at tax policy and the Kansas Department of Labor s response to COVID-19 jobless benefits as action items for lawmakers.
Highland joined KVOE s Morning Show this week for his perspective on successes, concerns and what lies ahead. He says one highlight was a bill to transfer oversight of the Kansas Department of Labor s unemployment insurance program to an outside agency because of ongoing concerns about the Labor Department. Highland is not happy with the department s response, and part of that goes into a bill on tax policy changes recently vetoed by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly.
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Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts Says Biden COVID Plan Penalizes States That Did The Right Thing
On 3/2/21 at 5:11 PM EST
Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts criticized the method through which the upcoming coronavirus relief package intends to allocate funding to states, suggesting its approach disadvantages those that managed economic fallout more successfully during earlier parts of the pandemic. You re penalizing people who have done the right thing, said Ricketts, a Republican politician first elected to lead Nebraska in 2015, according to the Associated Press. That s not the way you want to approach any sort of government program.
His latest remarks come as the U.S. Senate prepares to begin debating the terms of a third COVID-19 stimulus bill, backed by President Joe Biden, which endeavors to offset economic consequences of the ongoing national virus outbreak. Details of the proposed legislation, approved by members of the House of Representatives over the weekend, depart
Posted By: George Lawson February 23, 2021 @ 11:27 am Coronavirus (Covid-19), Local News, News
Sedgwick County has received additional doses of the COVID-19 vaccine that have been earmarked for teachers and staff at K-12 schools, under a plan recently announced by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly.
Deputy County Manager Tim Kaufman told county commissioners Tuesday that county health officials have been working with school districts and vaccinations could begin as soon as Wednesday. Kaufman said the plan is to get first doses of the vaccine to all teachers and staff within a 2 or 3 week time period.
The county has ten school districts along with the Catholic Diocese and a number private schools. Kaufman said the county will put the districts into groups and develop custom plans for providing the vaccine to each group. The county will work with pharmacies and clinics to provide the vaccine for about half
After faculty and staff protested a new KBOR policy outside of Allen Fieldhouse Tuesday, Provost Barbara Bichelmeyer responded with a statement. She informed the community that the University will ask