WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, issued the following news on July 7, 2025: * * * Chairman Moran Statement on VA's Workforce Announcement U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (Kan.) - chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs - released the following statement today after the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that they will not be conducting a Reduction in Force (RIF): "I spoke with Secretary Collins this morni  more

CANTON, Ohio, July 7 [Category: Sports] -- The National Football League posted the following news: * * * Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes ready to leave Super Bowl loss behind in 2025: 'Let's just play football' * 2024 presented us with a familiar finale, but a surprising outcome: the Kansas City Chiefs ending their season on the losing end of a blowout. Such a finish might inspire a desire to exact revenge on the rest of the NFL. That's not exactly how quarterback Patrick Mahomes sees it, though  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Kansas Regulators Approve Expensive Evergy Gas Plants * Kansas City, Ks - Today, the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC), which regulates monopoly utilities like Evergy, approved a non-unanimous settlement allowing the electric company to build two gas plants totaling an estimated $1.6 billion. Half of the new gas plant costs will be charged to the utility's Kansas customers. A separate, un  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following news release on July 7, 2025: * * * STB Enforces Merger Conditions Facilitating Continued Competitive Options for Grain Traffic to Gulf Coast * The Surface Transportation Board today announced a decision confirming the Kansas City Southern Railway Company's (KCSR, now part of Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) with Canadian Pacific Railway (CP)) continued ability to use haulage ri  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, July 8 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Author spotlights 'Algorithmic Age of Personality' in African literature While previously extolling the way social media empowers Nigerians' response to their corrupt political leaders, scholar James Yeku now decries the way it supercharges cancel culture, shutting down debate on important social and literary topics. The author of two poetry collections and an associate professor of African & African-Americ  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, July 8 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Women of color fare better in personal earnings where racial minority men struggle most, study finds In the United States, racial minorities earn less than whites, and women earn less than men. But according to a new study, women of color may not be so financially hindered by their sex and race as might be assumed. "If ethnoracial barriers are truly universal, then how can women of color be less disadvantag  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, July 8 -- The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., a veterans service organization, issued the following news release on July 7, 2025: * * * VFW Applauds VA for 'Scalpel' Approach to Force Reduction The following is a message from VFW National Commander Al Lipphardt I am pleased to hear today's announcement that through early retirements, deferred resignations, the federal hiring freeze and normal attrition, the Department of Veterans Affairs is on track to reduce its  more