City to require regular COVID testing for unvaccinated workers
Lawrence will require its unvaccinated employees to undergo periodic testing for COVID-19 and Douglas County may adopt a similar policy. Together the two entities cover more than 1,600 workers. Officials say local policies reflect high voluntary vaccination rates and stop short of federal vaccine mandates.
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Skyblazer regional jet design wins international award
EU engineering students Brennan Wheatley Lendon Jackson and Krishna Sitaula lead a team that claimed a top international prize for their Skyblazer concept regional jet. The faster, lower footprint jet aims to outpace conventional jets of its size, amid KU engineering students also making headlines for a missile design project intended to counter drones.
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Rural Kansas faces rising death by own action rates
Hays resident Kyle Carlin shares his youth depression, nearly leading to self harm, highlighting stigma and access barriers in rural Kansas. A Kansas Health Institute study shows rural and frontier counties' death by own action rates rose about 55 to 60 percent from 2000 to 2019, with firearms crisis reports also increasing. Carlin volunteers with the local American Foundation for Suicide Prevention chapter organizing a death by own action prevention walk in Hays this month.
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