>>Kansas farm income in 2025 is expected to be among the strongest in the last 20 years, bolstered by $2 billion in government payments for depressed crop prices and weather conditions, an agricultural economics expert said Tuesday.<<
#Agriculture #Kansas #KansasReflector
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/06/18/government-payments-push-kansas-farm-income-higher-in-2025-amid-global-uncertainty/
Attorney, activists temporarily blocked from entering Kansas City immigration court building
#KansasReflector #Missouri #Immigration #Deportation #USPol #KansasCity #JaymeSalinardi #JimboGillcrist #AngelaFerguson #IanTomasic
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/05/29/attorney-activists-temporarily-blocked-from-entering-kansas-city-immigration-court-building/
Despite the headline, there was much agreement on much of the substance.
>>The justices seemed frustrated with the frequent use of preliminary injunctions from the lower courts not only in the Trump administration, but others that occurred during the Biden administration.
Kagan noted that during the first Trump administration, suits were filed in the more liberal courts of California, and that during the Biden administration suits were filed in the more conservative courts in Texas.<<
#KansasReflector #SCOTUS #BirthrightCitizenship #NationwideInjunctions #USPol #USA
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/05/15/repub/u-s-supreme-court-divided-over-trump-birthright-citizenship-ban-lower-courts-powers/
Last night I took the pet on a walk to the city's "Old Town", we are at that time of the year when all nights are frigid, I never connected the dots of why its park is so lifeless, barren of any attractive features, a green carpet floor, and a few uncomfortable sitting spaces, all the features were thought out by someone to repulse the unhoused population
Catching up from y/our weekend? #Arizona #Georgia #NorthCarolina #Pennsylvania and #Virginia catch the notice of below caption and Ariana Figueroa, Jacob Fischler, and Jennifer Shutt: cross-posted in #KansasReflector and #MissouriIndependent gr8 weekend recap from 'round 'merica šŗšø š going into #electionday2024
#Kansas #Lawmakersā support #veto of #genderaffirming #Healthcare #ban
One might think the story stops there, but I want to bring to light the #postscript to that #House #vote for #KansasReflector #readers.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #MoralPanic #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes
Iām heading to Dulles before dawn tomorrow, but not for work: Iām flying to Dallas to try to see the solar eclipse, a friend having invited people to visit for the occasion. Please wish us luck with the weather!
4/3/2024: Ad Industry Unbothered by Federal Privacy Law (Because Itāll Probably Never Happen), PCMag
I wrote this from the Interactive Advertising Bureauās Public Policy and Legal Summit mindful of my past excessive optimism about Congress passing a comprehensive privacy lawāand then Sunday brought news of another such attempt, the introduction of the American Privacy Rights Act by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R.-Wash.) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D.-Wash.). I would love to see this headline age as badly as the one PCMag ran above a January 2023 post of mineāāIs This the Year Congress Finally Tackles Privacy Legislation?āābut Iām not going to get my hopes up just yet.
4/3/2024: FCC to Try Again on Net-Neutrality Rules at April 25 Meeting, PCMag
Speaking of tech-policy stories that have been going on forever, I wrote about the latest twist in the net-neutrality plot: the Federal Communications Commissionās scheduled date to vote for rules reinstating strong rules along the lines of the net-neutrality regulations it passed in 2015 and then smashed the ādeleteā key on in 2017.
4/5/2024: In this California valley, machine vision meets grapevines, Fast Company
I did some of my most scenic reporting in Sonoma County two weeks ago to check out how one vineyard there is applying robotics and electric-vehicle technology to tend its vines in a greener wayāwhile collecting much more data about them along the way.
4/5/2024: Facebook Really, Really Doesnāt Want You to Read This One Story, PCMag
I was going to spend Thursday afternoon writing about an exceptionally-informative panel about the hazards of age-verification requirements that Iād watched at the International Association of Privacy Professionalās Global Privacy Summit, but then I saw Bluesky lighting up with posts about Facebook not only blocking a Kansas Reflector op-ed critical of its downranking of climate-change discussions and then bulk-deleting every Facebook post sharing any link to the Reflectorās site. The story got increasingly bizarre as I exchanged e-mails with two editors at that publicationāone of 39 funded around the U.S. by the nonprofit States Newsroomāwhile Meta limited its PR efforts to a vague and unhelpful tweet from publicist Andy Stone. Only on Saturday did it get into more specifics, in the form of a series of replies to Bluesky posts by Instagram head Adam Mosseri in which he said the problem was a phishing-site filter going awry.
4/6/2024: How manufacturing is discovering new virtuous circles as it moves toward a more circular economy, Fast Company
The last piece I wrote for the Most Innovative Companies projectāI did the interview for this from National Airport on my way to Barcelona for MWC Feb. 23, then wrote and filed it from Newark Airport a few hours laterāwas also the last to be published.
#circularEconomy #cleantech #FacebookBlockingLinks #FacebookContentModeration #FCC #greentech #IAB #IAPP #KansasReflector #netNeutrality #onlinePrivacy #privacyLaw #sustainability
I received a notice this morning that a link to the Marion newspaper raid article was taken down for "cybersecurity" reasons. Looks like I wasn't the only one.
' āI think the most charitable interpretation I can come up with is [local officials] just didnāt know and were ill informed about freedom of the press and the rights that journalists have in this country,ā [Katherine Jacobsen of the Committee to Protect Journalists] said. āA more nefarious interpretation is, of course, that they just didnāt care and were in fact kind of happy to see the journalists put in their place.ā '
Sarah Cole, "Legislative leaders spread biased tropes about disabled Kansans in crusade against #Medicaid"
#Kansas #disability
#KansasReflector
https://kansasreflector.com/2023/10/26/legislative-leaders-spread-biased-tropes-about-disabled-kansans-in-crusade-against-medicaid/
On our Commentary page: #ClayWires of the #KansasReflector rounds up threats across the U.S. to journalists, including the police raid of a Kansas weekly earlier this month & a politician's defamation suit targeting #wausaupilot
āPolice stage āchillingā raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphonesā
Link (#KansasReflector):https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones
#MarionCountyRecord (#MarionRecord)
#MarionRaid
#FreeSpeech
#FreedomOfThePress
