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A financing program aimed at spurring economic development is causing a rift among Kansas Republican legislators. While Republicans tend to stick together and overwhelm the other party with their two-thirds majority, this particular issue has not recognized any party lines. STAR Bonds, short for Sales Tax and Revenue Bonds, allows municipalities to issue bonds to finance development of major commercial, entertainment and tourism projects. Bonds are paid off through sales tax revenue generated by the project. The program expires in June, but the Kansas Department of Commerce wants to extend it...

Houston Methodist finds multiple cases of significant coronavirus mutations, including Brazil strain Infectious disease pathologists have sequenced more than 20,000 genomes of SARS-CoV-2 virus Newswise — HOUSTON-(March 2, 2021) – Houston Methodist discovered 28 cases of coronavirus variants in its latest batches of virus genomes sequenced from patients with positive COVID-19 tests, including what might be the state’s first confirmation of four cases of the Brazil variant known as P.1. Houston is the first city in the U.S. to have all the major variants documented by genome sequencing. �...

A former Milwaukee Fire Department lieutenant has been sentenced to five years behind bars after pleading guilty to one count of second-degree sexual assault of a child.

Posted: Feb 08, 2021 2:00 AM MT | Last Updated: February 10 Dr. Tyler Black is a psychiatrist who specializes in the study of suicide at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He says recently released data out of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan suggest suicide rates declined in 2020. .(Screenshot/Zoom) Widespread assumptions that suicide rates would increase during the pandemic are not supported by the growing amount of evidence coming out of Canadian provinces and other jurisdictions around the world, say experts who study the topic. "It's a good example of how sometime...

Kansas Senate bill would limit local government's ability to retire fossil fuels Sarah Spicer, The Wichita Eagle Feb. 1—Cities would not be able to ban natural gas as an energy source under a bill being considered in the Kansas Senate. Environmental organizations say the bill could slow a transition to renewable energy, while supporters say measure would help keep Kansas electric rates low. "I understand that cities that might want to go all-electric, but I think they should have a choice and I'm going to fight for that here," said Senator Robert Olson, a Republican from Ola...