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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Health
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Groundbreaking happening Friday for new KU Cancer Center
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Work on the $450 million University of Kansas Cancer Center will begin Friday. Over the last three years, the school's managed to raise $250 million. Private, state and federal funds have come in to build the $450 million facility. Download WDAF+ for Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV Once built, the university will consolidate its researchers, staff and lab equipment from a dozen different locations. The new facility will be going up in phases around 39th and Rainbow. And based on recent trends, it is very much needed. According to the university, 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. The annual worldwide cancer rate is expected to increase to 29.5 million people in the next 15 years. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly will attend, along with a list of guests, later today on the University of Kansas Medical Center campus. Groundbreaking is at 4 p.m. on Friday. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
09-03-2025
- Politics
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Kathleen Sebelius: Sen. Marshall, ‘real Kansans' expect government to keep promises
Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall held a town hall meeting last weekend in Logan County. He seemed to be caught by surprise with the size of the crowd, given the remote location, and the reaction of the audience to various actions taken by the new Trump administration. The meeting was scheduled for an hour — but Marshall departed early and then issued a statement through his chief of staff criticizing his constituents and declaring that 'real Kansans' overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE initiative. After 50 years of residency in Kansas and four successful statewide elections, I think I qualify as a 'real Kansan' even though I am a Democrat and live in the eastern part of the state. I could not disagree more strongly about what 'real Kansans' support. Most real Kansans don't support folks who renege on deals. But that's what the Trump administration had done, backing out of a deal to match investments farmers all over the state have made in land management and water conservation. Those farmers are now being told that they are out of luck — even though they've made the investments in good faith. And their crops are spoiling in rail cars and grain bins rather than being sent overseas to feed starving populations as promised. Real Kansans don't want untrained and unsupervised outsiders rummaging through their personal Social Security and tax data — they take privacy very seriously. Real Kansans don't support cutting off clinical trials and threatening lifesaving research at the University of Kansas Cancer Center because of slashing cuts at the National Institutes of Health. Real Kansans don't want their approximately 40,000 friends and neighbors — including thousands of veterans — who work for the federal government to have to worry that their jobs will disappear tomorrow at the whim of an erratic billionaire, one who got rich with $38 billion in government support and loans. Nor do they support cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs' vital services. Real Kansans want us to honor treaty agreements with Native Americans and not fire 25% of the faculty and staff at Haskell Indian Nations University in the middle of an academic year. But as Republicans, Democrats and independents, we real Kansans live in every corner of the state. We support working to eliminate waste and fraud, and making the efficient delivery of critical services a priority. But that is not what is underway with the DOGE wrecking crew, whose reckless actions are threatening critical services and supports relied upon by Kansas residents. Real Kansans — whether they're residents of Oakley or are willing to drive hundreds of miles to voice their concerns to their elected senator — have the right to expect that he won't run away from them. Sen. Marshall should spend more time in more Kansas communities listening to what is happening to his constituents and taking some Kansas common sense back to the U.S. Senate. Kathleen Sebelius was governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009.
