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You only get one chance to make a first impression and Vice President Kamala Harris is squandering hers.
She’s coasting off Trump’s questioning of Harris’ bona fides as a Black candidate — and the ensuing media backlash — she has failed to use the opportunity of her introduction to the voters to push a message.
More than 650,000 Americans experienced homelessness on any given night in 2023 — a 12 percent increase since 2022. Chronic homelessness is also worsening, with over 143,000 people homeless for at least a year in 2023 — an all-time high.
I've been the mayor of Aurora, Colo. for five years. In my first term, I went undercover and lived among people experiencing homelessness in Aurora and Denver for a week. I wanted to understand why Colorado's homeless community was growing and how my city could best help.
In less than two weeks, Seward County Community College will start a new semester. It’s an electric time here on campus, as we greet returning students, welcome new ones, and set off on something that feels like an adventure. I admit, I get excited about the start of the school year. It’s full of possibility. This is the big step that our SCCC Saints have worked so hard to reach. They are excited, a little scared, still young enough to dream big.
That is the theme our admissions team has chosen as they recruited students across our service area all last year, and continuing through the summer: Have a dream, be the dream, seize the dream. The words remind of us of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as the old slogan, “Carpe diem!” Seize the day.
Can you believe it’s August already? Summer has gone by in a flash, and we’re feeling the “back to school” energy at Seward County Community College.
Students arrived on campus this week, ready to start conditioning and training for the second-ever Saints soccer season and women’s volleyball. We were thrilled to get them settled in. There was just one hitch: the 90 students living in the dorms needed to eat. And our campus cafeteria was still closed as we wrapped up renovation work.
The extreme heat that recently blanketed the United States is a clear sign of climate change. But rising temperatures are fueling more than just hotter summers. Climate change is contributing to the spread of drug-resistant infections. And alarmingly, the medicines we use to fight those pathogens are losing their effectiveness.
Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, occurs when bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens evolve to resist the effects of medications, making common infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness, and death. Recent figures link AMR to nearly 5 million deaths annually -- far more than the combined death toll of AIDS and malaria. By 2050, more people will die of drug-resistant infections than currently die of cancer.
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Smoke billows from the Iranian State Television headquarters after an Israeli missile strike. Getting to watch the Israelis bomb the spit out of the despotic […]
A federal court judge in Kansas City, Kan., is expected to hear a request for an injunction Wednesday morning against a Next Era industrial solar […]
A Cowley County couple and the Kansas Justice Institute won a major victory earlier this week after a federal court ruled in favor of Scott Johnson and Harlene Hoyt, striking […]
