Kansas Cuts Food Aid for Immigrant Families’ Kids
Kansas welfare officials reduced or eliminated food stamp benefits for hundreds of U S born children in mixed status households. The change rewrites income counting for SNAP eligibility by treating citizen children as if alone in the household, ending partial counts used when residency proof was lacking.
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Kobach seeks support to expand hunting permit powers
Topeka Secretary of State Kris Kobach advocates a bill to let the governor distribute 12 big-game hunting permits at his discretion. The plan faces limited backing beyond Kobach’s office, as the House committee member noted. Current policy already allocates one permit per year to each of seven wildlife commissioners for distribution to conservation groups through auctions.
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Meadowlark Chicks and the Rooster encore flash mob
The Meadowlark Estates residents known as the Meadowlark Chicks and the Rooster performed a second flash mob at their northwest Lawrence retirement community open house. They danced to Rascal Flatts and a cover of Life is a Highway with Bob MacLean, the Rooster, playing an air guitar solo on a cane. Dozens watched as the group presented two dances, following a viral Target event in December.
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Capitol briefing on Medicaid privatization sparks disability care concerns
Governor Brownback proposes privatizing Medicaid risking long term care for those with developmental disabilities. Rep. Ward introduces HB 2457 to carve out long term nonmedical care from KanCare, arguing reforms must protect critical disability services while privatization proceeds.
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