In Kansas News
Top Kansas lawmakers are giving the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals six more months to decide on potential new stadiums in the Sunflower state.
A bipartisan legislative committee today (MON) extended the deadline for a tax incentive package.
Republican House Speaker Dan Hawkins blamed the delays on the Kansas Department of Commerce, which is run by Democratic Lieutenant Governor David Toland.
“That’s not fair to the teams, when they’re making proposals and they’re not getting responses back.”
Toland said in a statement that the negotiations are complicated and need more time to be done correctly.
A new report says Kansas has work to do to improve the mental health of pregnant and postpartum moms. Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga (wahn-GAHN-guh) has more for the Kansas News Service.
"Kansas scored a D rating in a 2025 report by the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health, a national, non-profit think-tank. That’s a little lower than the national average, which is C-. Neighboring Missouri and Colorado scored D+ and B-.
Caitlin Murphy, who collaborated on the report, says maternal mental health disorders can have a lasting impact on moms and their families. But Kansas does not require insurance companies to share maternal mental health screening data.
“So Kansas stakeholders could make an effort to require their insurers to report out these screening rates to be able to track them over time.”
Murphy says the state could also improve by creating a state-level maternal mental health task force.For the Kansas News Service, I’m Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga"
And in Missouri News
A Planned Parenthood clinic in Kansas City is providing abortion services again.
Starting Monday, patients can receive surgical abortions at the clinic at Cleaver Boulevard and Troost Avenue.
Emily Wales (rhymes with WHALES) is president of Planned Parenthood Great Plains. She says a judge’s ruling last week that allows abortions … means Missourians have better access to reproductive care.
“It means for patients that you don't have to travel as far, that you can stay in the state where you live, where you make your home, where you raise your family and get care that is constitutionally protected.”
The Midtown clinic is the ONLY place in Kansas City, Missouri, providing abortions. Planned Parenthood says abortion services will soon resume at the clinic in Columbia.