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photo by: Screenshot // Kansas Board of Regents The Kansas Board of Regents met on April 14, 2021 and approved two changes to its temporary COVID-19 policy. The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday did not back away from a policy that temporarily would make it easier for the University of Kansas to dismiss tenured faculty due to budget woes. But the board did add a couple of new provisions aimed at increasing transparency with the controversial process. During their board meeting on Wednesday, the Regents heard two recommended changes, which were developed by a workgroup tasked with reviewi...

Weekly regional updates on the pandemic across Kansas have ended.

A Wichita-based restaurant is set to move into the former Avenues Bistro location in Brookside.

A Wichita breakfast restaurant concept is expanding into Kansas City's Brookside area Denise Neil, The Wichita Eagle Mar. 1—Jon Rolph's Thrive Restaurant Group opened its first HomeGrown breakfast and lunch restaurant in May 2017 at 29th and Maize Road, and since then, it's opened two more — one downtown in the Spaghetti Works District and the other at Bradley Fair. Now, says Rolph, he's ready to open a fourth, but this one won't be in Wichita. This morning, Rolph is in Kansas City picking up the keys to a 4,690 square-foot site that recently was home to a restaurant calle...

Faced with the prospect of having the decision made for them, the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday voted to commit to spending a proposed $10.3 million discretionary fund, if approved by the Kansas Legislature, on much-needed maintenance and upgrades for aging university facilities. As part of her proposed budget for the 2022 fiscal year, Gov. Laura Kelly partially offset a $37.4 general fund reduction for state universities with a proposed $10.3 million allocation to the regents to distribute at their discretion. The $10.3 million allocation was calculated as the budget increase universi...