Kansas governor proposes paying for Medicaid expansion through legalizing medical marijuana
Kansas City Star (MO)
Laura Kelly proposed Monday that
Kansas pay for expansion of Medicaid with revenue from the sale and taxation of medical marijuana.
The plan would require lawmakers to legalize the sale of marijuana for medical use, which would likely be controversial. Kelly told reporters that the approach eliminates the argument that
Kansas cannot afford to expand Medicaid to provide health coverage for an additional 165,000 low-income residents. You have heard many of the comments coming from the opposition have been we can t afford it, Kelly said. We have just designed a bill that pays for itself and more.
National Guard helps Missouri set up 9 mass COVID vaccine sites. But supply is limited Jonathan Shorman, The Kansas City Star
Jan. 21 JEFFERSON CITY Missouri plans to establish mass coronavirus vaccination sites across the state, even as top officials acknowledge demand for shots far exceeds supply.
The state Department of Health and Senior Services, with assistance from the Missouri National Guard, will set up nine sites one in each Highway Patrol region and will deploy vaccination teams to areas where access to the sites may be limited.
The operation, announced by Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday, may help boost vaccinations in the weeks and months ahead. But for now, by Parson s own admission, the number of doses coming into Missouri remains extremely limited.
Goodbye, snow days. Hello, babies: 6 ways COVID will continue to change Kansas City Eric Adler, The Kansas City Star
Dec. 31 Predicting the future is an iffy game.
Few people before 2020, after all, seriously believed that a pandemic, generated by a virus from bats in China, would end up hobbling world commerce and in only nine months kill 1.7 million people, more than 300,000 in the United States.
Yet vaccines hold the promise that in 2021 the COVID-19 virus will begin to be tamed.
What might the new normal look like then? Will everyone discard protective face masks or might they become a lasting part of the U.S. wardrobe? Will you ever really return to an office full time?
Hanover Park Trustee Shahjahan to run again, declines spot on mayor s slate Hanover Park Trustee Sharmin Shahjahan
Updated 12/9/2020 3:10 PM
Hanover Park Village Trustee Sharmin Shahjahan will run for reelection on the April 6 ballot, but not as part of the Hanover Park Strong slate organized by Mayor Rod Craig. I ve done a lot of good work in my first four years as trustee and would like to continue to serve the community, Shahjahan said. Mayor Craig asked me to run on his slate, but with (Trustee) Rick (Roberts) and (Village Clerk) Eira (Corral Sepulveda) leaving the board, I did not know all the candidates on the slate and I felt more comfortable running independently, as I did last time. This gives voters an opportunity to assess each candidate.