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Project Justice is a non-profit organization focused on solving cold cases, particularly those involving unidentified remains, by funding advanced DNA testing and forensic genealogy.
The entity recently celebrated its 50th solved case, a nearly 20-year-old mystery in Yavapai County, Ariz. As Project Justice co-founder Justin Woo tells it, it was very thrilling to receive the news at the end of June.
Watkins Public Strategies has played an important part in getting the voice of Southwest Kansas heard for multiple years, and this past Kansas Legislature session kept them quite busy.
“This session, we saw the election last fall of all 165 House and Senate members, so we have a new legislature coming in, and there are many of those who are returning, but we still saw almost one-third of the legislative body as newcomers,” Watkins Public Strategies Vice President Jessica Lucas said. “On top of the changes of elected officials, we also had a new schedule in how the Legislature has decided to go to a 90 calendar day session as opposed to a 90-day session – in the past, we would have seen our work extended into May, and I've been there before when it was extended into June. This year, we were done and totally wrapped up by April, so it was a much speedier process. And then, to add a new layer to the session, the Legislature also decided they wanted to have their own budget – historically, a budget would have looked like the governor creating a product and then all of the work was built off of that. The Legislature would examine the governor's budget and then say 'We like this, we'll keep it in' or 'We're going to take X away' or whatever the situation ultimately calls for. But everything was done from the governor's budget. This year, the Legislature basically took the governor's budget, set it aside, and started from their own work product, which resembled the 2024 budget pared down from everything that had any type of what they called one-time expenses. It was just a different year that resulted in a lot of fast-paced movement and many, many changing dynamics.”
The Kansas Department of Transportation has started a signing project to replace signage along several sections of U.S. Highway 50, U.S. Highway 400, U.S. Highway 56 and Kansas Highway 23 in Gray, Ford, Finney and Meade counties.
Motorists can expect minimal traffic impacts in the project work area. The highway will be open to regular traffic.
Signs Up LTD DBA Haren’s Trees and Critters, of Webster City Iowa is the contractor on this $199,689 project, which is expected to be completed by November, conditions permitting.
For more information on this project, contact David Ubel, Construction Manager, at 620-682-7938, or Yazmin Moreno, Public Information Officer, at 620-765-7080.
The Kansas Department of Transportation is starting a concrete patching and profile grinding project Monday along U.S. Highway 50 in Finney County, beginning west of Holcomb then east to the end of the four-lane near Third Street.
The project’s length is approximately 8.39 miles.
Traffic will be reduced to a single lane through the work zone in both directions. The speed limit will be lowered, and the work zones will be marked with signs and cones. These lane closures on U.S. 50 will remain in effect while work is ongoing with a road restriction of 12 feet.
RA Knapp Construction Inc. of Lenexa, is the contractor on this $5.1 million project, which is expected to be completed by the end of December, conditions permitting.
For more information on the project, contact Yazmin Moreno, Public Information Officer at 620-260-6397 or Craig Schlott P.E., District Assistant Construction and Materials Engineer, at 620-765-7096.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, many communities across America celebrated the nation’s independence, and in Liberal, the holiday was marked with another celebration.
The City of Liberal, the Liberal Chamber of Commerce and other community members attended a ribbon cutting for local artist Karem Gallo-Flores’s mural project in Light Park as part of a joint effort from the city, the Kansas Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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