Redistricting plan pits Holland Gossage in same Kansas Senate district
A Republican redistricting proposal would place GOP Senator Beverly Gossage in a district with Democratic Senator Tom Holland, creating a potential 2024 contest. The plan also pairs Senator Rick Wilborn with Senator Michael Fagg, while a Democratic map shows only one incumbent pairing.
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Douglas County
Kansas
Senate
GOP
Beverly Gossage
Eudora
Tom Holland
Baldwin City
Gossage
League of Women Voters
Rick Wilborn
McPherson
Michael Fagg
el Dorado
Wilborn
Fagg
Douglas County watches for stealth omicron BA.2 amid rising cases
LMH Health reports no BA.2 detections yet in Douglas County but notes the subvariant is gradually increasing in the region while 14 new COVID-19 cases are listed since Wednesday. Inpatients at LMH Health rose from four to six, and countywide active cases fall to 249 from the prior update. Since March 2020 Douglas County totals 25,247 cases.
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Douglas County
Johnson County
Eudora
Gossage
LMH Health
American Medical Association
Omicron
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health
LMH
Lawrence man gets 7 months in stabbing case
Lawrence resident Brian Samuel Stubbs, 25, was found guilty of interfering with an officer and criminal use of a weapon after a March 2021 stabbing at a West 24th Street apartment. A jury acquitted him of attempted first degree murder. Judge Kay Huff imposed concurrent 17 month and 12 month sentences with 12 months post release supervision.
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Lawrence
Brian Samuel Stubbs
West 24Th Street
Stubbs
Kay Huff
KU alumnus COVID vaccine pioneer to speak at Higuchi Lecture
Dr. Barney Graham, former deputy director of NIH Vaccine Research Center and KU alumnus, will deliver two March lectures on campus and online. His 5 p.m. public talk at Gray-Little Hall addresses rapid COVID-19 vaccine development and future vaccinology.
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Graham
School of
Paola
Kansas City
Rockchalk
Higuchi
Teacher sues district over pronoun policy dispute
Fort Riley Middle School math teacher Pamela Ricard filed a federal lawsuit claiming the Geary County School District violated her constitutional rights and Christian beliefs by suspending her for three days over using a student’s preferred name and pronouns. The suit notes no formal policy existed at the time, cites post suspension training, and alleges her requests for religious accommodation were denied as the district later adopted a policy mandating preferred names and pronouns.
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Geary County
Kansas
Fort Riley
Pamela Ricard
Mark Edwards
Kansas City
Ricard
Kriegshauser New Law Group
Board of Education
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