Planned fall Honor Flight canceled from Garden City
The Central Prairie Honor Flight network in Great Bend cancels an October departure from Garden City due to too few Western Kansas World War II veterans signed up. About a dozen applications remain for the region, with the Oct 4 trip scheduled to depart from Wichita instead.
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Garden City
Central
Sandy Walters
Central Prairie Honor Flight Agency
Walters
Washington, D.C
Wichita
Kansas
Rosemary Corbett
Washington D.C
Post office plan shifts Kansas city operations
The U S Postal Service proposes changing first class delivery from overnight to two to three days and opening studies to move sorting from Hutchinson Dodge City Salina and Hays to Wichita. A prior Hutchinson to Wichita consolidation cut 35 Hutchinson jobs and outgoing mail processing ends Saturday. Officials estimate $58 000 annual savings.
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U.S. Postal Service
Hutchinson
Dodge City
Salina
Hays
Wichita
Wichita’s
Postal Service
Brian Sperry
Denver
SRS official: Workers taking buyouts
About 300 Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services employees have said yes to the state's voluntary retirement incentive. The deadline was extended from Sept. 19 to Oct. 14, so the number could rise. Backfilling will target five state hospitals first and on the street caseworkers next, with 25 percent of eligible staff aimed for buyouts.
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Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
SRS
Robert Siedlecki
Siedlecki
Hutchinson
Larned State Hospital
Kansas AG probes nonprofit over Medicaid funds skimmed
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says a probe targets Kansas Health Solutions a nonprofit with a state contract to deliver mental health services across all 105 counties The investigation centers on false billing to skim about 1 million in Medicaid money from 190 million annual SRS funding The former CFO Jason Sellers is not charged yet and may be focus of inquiry The case affects ongoing contract talks with the SRS and the nonprofit plans external accounting and legal oversight per state approval
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Topeka
Kansas
Derek Schmidt
Kansas Health Solutions
Association of Community Mental Health Centers
Kansas Coun
Jason Sellers
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Topeka Capital Journal
Sellers
KHS
Attorney General’s Office
SRS
Robert Siedlecki
Capital Journal
State Extra
Siedlecki
Michael Goldberg
Tinues
Jackson
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Tek
Egran
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Scott Jackson
Goldberg
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Schwieterman Inc
Chicago
Annie
Garden City Co-op
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