Decision-making process amid COVID-19 keeps students, faculty, and staff’s best interest in mind

BY CORIE LYNN As students were wheeling their belongings to their cars in carts and on dorm room chairs Monday afternoon, email notifications began lighting…

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KDHE issues new mandates for quarantine, isolation of travelers, close contacts

Tribune News Service TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is issuing new mandates surrounding COVID-19, including travelers, close contacts of confirmed cases…

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Yes, younger people are falling seriously ill from COVID-19

By Michelle Cortez and Angelica LaVito Tribune News Service New evidence from Europe and the U.S. suggests younger adults aren’t as impervious to the novel…

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Coronavirus stimulus plan could deliver $3K to family of four

Tribune News Service The emerging $1 trillion aid package intended to help weather the COVID-19 economic storm appears likely to deliver $1,000 to every U.S.…

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Kansas lawmakers seek to bar Kelly from seizing ammunition, property during pandemic

By Jonathan Shorman and Nicole Asbury Tribune News Service TOPEKA — Kansas Republican lawmakers moved Wednesday to limit Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s emergency powers during…

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Businesses are sheltering in place. How long can the economy survive that?

By Laurence Darmiento Tribune News Service We’ve all seen the unsettling images of what happens when the economy goes haywire. Bread lines, farmers abandoning the…

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Gov. Kelly halts home, business evictions during coronavirus threat

By Dion Lefler Tribune News Service Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has quietly signed a sweeping executive order freezing mortgage foreclosures and rent evictions in Kansas…

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Fear of virus-driven economic crisis infects Kansas budget debate

By Tim Carpenter Tribune News Service TOPEKA — The Kansas House and Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday expanding by 10 weeks availability of unemployment benefits…

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Gov. Kelly orders K-12 schools closed for rest of academic year

By Jonathan Shorman Tribune News Service TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly ordered K-12 schools closed for the rest of the academic year Tuesday as…

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Coronavirus pandemic prompts lawmakers to push paid leave

By Sophie Quinton Tribune News Service WASHINGTON — Some Democratic state lawmakers, like their congressional counterparts, are redoubling their efforts to pass paid leave legislation,…

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