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Republicans in Washington and Topeka are skeptical of billions of pandemic relief dollars that could flow to Kansas, as well as its counties and cities.

Doesnt seem quite fair: Kansas business owners seek tax refund for COVID-19 shutdowns Sydney Hoover, The Kansas City Star Feb. 18—TOPEKA — Ryan Bramhall said the money his Manhattan sports bar has lost in the last year is "sickening." Tubbys, his Aggieville bar, closed like most other businesses last March as the coronavirus spread and the state locked down. Even when they reopened over the summer, Bramhall and other restaurateurs struggled as county governments restricted t...

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Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector photo by: Screen capture of Kansas Legislature YouTube by Kansas Reflector Scott Schneider, who represents the Kansas Restaurant and Hospitality Association, tells lawmakers during a hearing Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, that governments should understand they have to compensate businesses when wielding their policing powers. TOPEKA — Wichita restaurant owner John Arnold says it is difficult to avoid feeling vilified by government restrictions placed on businesses in...

Businesses in Kansas and the U.S. have suffered during the pandemic, with countless businesses having closed, many of them permanently. In particular, sectors where remote work wasnt possible and where businesses werent deemed essential had an especially rough time, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. One Kansas business even sued the state, seeking compensation for economic damages caused by the states COVID-19 shutdown. Now, state lawmakers are now looking at targeting ...

Celia Llopis-Jepsen / Kansas News Service Originally published on February 11, 2021 2:14 pm The pandemic caused counties across the state to issue varying levels of business shutdown orders meant to slow the spread of a life-threatening virus. Now businesses that lost their ability to make money during the pandemic want a tax refund for the time they were forced to hang “closed” signs. Lawmakers heard competing arguments about property tax rebates this week. Businesses say the clos...

they will join the conversation here on c-span. we will also have facebook. we posted a question for you. lots of questions so far on what your thoughts are on the connection between infotainment and political journalism? here is one comment. fox and msnbc are nearly wall- to-wall infotainment. they do not even attempt to be journalistic at the primetime slots. says they give you at least a laugh. bill donohue back the iraq not war. the #we are using is infotainment. we are using is in...

>> i was shocked -- the same thing happened to me. they took a picture of me without my shirt on. [laughter] >> got that photo right here. [laughter] >> but you did not have it first. [laughter] >> there were a bunch of questions. these guys did not invent that kind of television or information. i honestly -- these things have been around forever. they do it in a different way on a different medium at a different level. i do not find it particularly threatening to journalism at all. in...

in. >> i think the unemployment being so high in staying so i under him is an indication that his approach does not work and his philosophy behind the approach. thank you. >> hi, im nancy meyer. i was born and raised in ohio. we move down here 15 years ago. we both graduated from ohio state. >> did you come for a job? family? >> a job. now i am a stay at home mom but have a part-time job. we have two kids. 15 and 13. i think my biggest concern about things right now is just the getting...

a plane with something they could have found on a pat-down. >> but the new pat-down is very up close and personal. they n use their fingers to feel. the scanner shows private, sensitive areas, but theyre also the areas that have been used by would-be terrorists. >> we feel this is the best technology to see the explosive devices we know have been used before. >> most notably by the underwear bomber that tried to blow up a plane on the way to detroit. every passenger we talked to seemed...