After posting an operating loss of more than $5 million, the hospital that serves Lawrence, gives its CEO a raise and a bonus, pushing his salary to more than $572,000. a jury awards $158 million to the family of a passenger who was shot and killed on a Kansas City-bound Amtrak train. two people in Topeka face animal cruelty charges. and COVID 19 cases fall in Kansas City and Wichita. Those headlines and more, inside.
The first of three essays written by noted historian, author, and educator Karl Cohen to bring awareness to the present state of indie animated shorts and to stimulate a discussion that might lead to improvements; we start with a discussion of the ways these shorts have reached the public since the decline of theatrical cartoons.