Statewide effort gathers immigrant stories across Kansas
The Kansas Humanities Council expands the Better Together project with grants up to 8000 for eight communities to interview immigrants and transcribe memories for exhibits and online collections. Stories span Liberals Liberal Reno County Garden City and Wichita venues with diverse groups including Vietnamese Mexicans Cubans and African immigrants.
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Liberal
Garden City
Kansas
National Endowment For the Humanities
We the People
Kansas Humanities Council
Julie Mulvihill
Council
Finney County
Bethel College
North Newton
Emporia
Landmark Inn antique gym gear used in film
Gary Anderson of the Landmark Inn in Oberlin rented antique rowing machines and an exercise bike to a movie production linked to Ron Howard and Russell Crowe. The gear appeared in advertising as part of Cinderella Man, with some items set to appear on screen while others may be cut. Visitors take photos with the equipment, and guests note its film ties.
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Oberlin
Gary Anderson
Landmark Inn
Ron Howard
Anderson
Russell Crowe
Toronto
Illinois
Brazil
Archway to Rise in Lindsborg At East Lincoln Street Corner
Lindsborg prepares a $14,500 steel arch 43 feet wide and 25 feet tall to welcome visitors. The arch reads Lindsborg 1869 and Valkom menater on the west side, aims to draw people to downtown amid stalled Streetscape funding and highway re-routing debates.
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Lindsborg
Kansas Highway 4
Lincoln Street
Greg DuMars
DuMars
John Magnuson
Main Street
Archway
Dauer Welding and Machine
Norman Dauer
Grain Belt
Salina
Lincoln
Kansas Department of Transportation
Magnuson
East Lincoln
Regulation Push Ends Medicaid Viagra for Sex Offenders
In New York and beyond, regulators recount that Viagra and similar erectile dysfunction drugs were paid for by Medicaid for sex offenders under a misapplied 1998 directive. CMS urges states to stop coverage, warning such payments could amount to fraud or abuse. Nationwide spending on erectile dysfunction drugs totals about 38 million dollars annually, with Viagra accounting for most of the cost.
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New York
Kansas
Deiies
SRS
Centers For Medicare and
Medicaid Services
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
States
CMS
Dennis Smith
Flag bearer honors veterans in quiet town
Alfred, a World War II veteran, tends a cemetery graveyard flag program for over 30 years. He prides himself on locating every veteran’s grave and placing flags, recalling friends like Mack who fell in Italy and asking why civil war veterans are harder to reach.
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Alfred
Mack
Italy
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Mexico
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High Plains
Wendee LaPlant
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Salina Journal
FlamEshonestabe
Pine Family Farms
Hwys 59
Lawrence
Xiao
Sean) Yang
Internal Medicine
S. Main
Suite
Ottawa
E. Franklin
Pomona
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Dish Network
Nba
Carn Neterhwalt Ox
TNT Sittaneine
HOMER
Ghinge
Ottaws, KR
GMAT
America
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