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The Kansas Forest Service (KFS) issued a press release on Wednesday, May 14, calling on the state’s residents to support the agency as it faces dire straits. The source of the KFS’s anxiety comes from the federal Fiscal Year 2026 proposal, which contains a big change that could seriously impact some of its critical services.

The KFS said the Trump Administration’s budget proposal would eliminate all Forest Service State, Private and Tribal Forestry (SPTF) programs. These programs help the KFS with wildfire prevention, support local fire departments, assist private landowners with management of forests or windbreaks, community tree planting and care, along with habitat restoration.

 

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/27061311

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28861747

Summary

When Rosmery Alvarado, 42, arrived in Kansas City on Wednesday with her husband and daughter to attend a spousal interview for her green card application, “everyone had a bad feeling.”

They had received unusual short notice for the interview and saw warning signs. 40 minutes later, Alvarado was on her way to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.

“We didn’t get any kind of warning. They didn’t let us say goodbye.”

“My mom is not a criminal,” Carina Moran said. “She’s just my mom.” “She told us that she was scared and that she probably cried to herself throughout the whole night, that it was cold.”

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28861747

Summary

When Rosmery Alvarado, 42, arrived in Kansas City on Wednesday with her husband and daughter to attend a spousal interview for her green card application, “everyone had a bad feeling.”

They had received unusual short notice for the interview and saw warning signs. 40 minutes later, Alvarado was on her way to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.

“We didn’t get any kind of warning. They didn’t let us say goodbye.”

“My mom is not a criminal,” Carina Moran said. “She’s just my mom.” “She told us that she was scared and that she probably cried to herself throughout the whole night, that it was cold.”

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

Exactly; the AP should fix their style guide.

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where's the fun in that? This way, we get feel-good news articles to keep the masses compliant and thankful for what little they get back from their government. /hj

I really don't understand why so many states and citizens are opposed to this; simply put, if you want students to do well and thus the country to do well, then the scientific literature recommends that you feed the students. Even the Christian take is in unequivocal agreement:

Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. -- Luke 6:24-26

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’" -- Matthew 25:41-43

Would seem like a no-brainer to me. 🤷

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 23 points 4 months ago

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." - MLK Jr.

Your point around trying to keep the school boards on the right side of things is of paramount importance. Education is of paramount importance right now.

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

Thank goodness, glad we're on the good list for once!

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Absolutely! I get it if you're stocking up for weather disasters to a degree, but the number of folks who rely strictly on bottled water is too high. Seems that some combination of advertising + fear and convenience have made it too enticing to use single-use water bottles, though. ☹️

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely despicable! Thank you for summarizing all of these details, this story has such sprawl it's difficult to capture just how all the issues factor into one another anymore. Really hope that justice starts to play out in the long term, but I'm not convinced that will happen on account of the corruption emanating from the State; the Kansas Bureau of Investigation decided to involve CBI in the matter, indicating the rot likely permeates much of the state bureaucracy as well.

There's also the attempt to undermine Kansas' 2016 Open Records Act in preventing the release of pertinent communications by officials and court records during and shortly before the raid (which many anti-transparency activists in the Kansas GOP are trying to use to get rid of the KORA (1 and 2)).

[–] mautamu@midwest.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most definitely!

At least where I am, they're in the most uptown bougie strip mall they can get into; same situation with Whole Foods. Starting to shop exclusively at the two state-wide/local stores that don't have these issues, but wish more folks had access to quality local grocers who pay well and support unions.

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