Lawrence schools report 48 COVID cases among students
Lawrence school district enters its second full week of class as 48 student cases are reported Friday morning. Most cases are in elementary buildings serving unvaccinated students, yet the impact extends beyond the affected pupils.
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Invasive Grass Threatens Kansas Prairie Monoculture
Hays-Keith Harmoney crouches in a pale yellow field outside his office as he shows how Old World bluestem dominates a northwest Kansas prairie. He notes a typical square foot would host about a dozen plant species, yet this patch holds a single species, signaling the invasive grass is overrunning the landscape.
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Keith Harmoney
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David Condos
Kansas News Service
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K-State Agricultural Center
Virus cases creep up in Douglas County amid KU data
Douglas County reports a 3.9 percent positivity over 14 days as KU records 2.65 percent positivity among students in a seven day span ending Sept 1. In total, 92 new county cases emerged in two days while KU notes high campus vaccination rates around 75 to 81 percent among student housing.
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University of Kansas
Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health
Lawrence
Brinn Barcomb- Peterson
Douglas Girod
Moran calls for War Declaration over Authorizations
U S Senator Jerry Moran at Washburn University argued Congress should require a formal declaration of war rather than executive branch authorizations for future conflicts. He recalled 9 11 as a defining moment and noted more than 2 500 U S service members died in Afghanistan and about 4 500 in Iraq.
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Jerry Moran
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Washburn University
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