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Tweet Prairie Village’s Audrey Langworthy, a former Kansas state senator, has been named the 2012 Johnson Countian of the Year by the Johnson County Community College Foundation. The award honors an individual or individuals who have “helped to make Johnson County such a great place to learn, live and work.” Langworthy started her career as [...]
Tweet Johnson County Republican Party officials are in for a busy week. And SM East may be in for a visit from one of the four Republican presidential candidates. Party chair Ronnie Metsker said that starting with Rick Santorum’s visit to Lenexa today, there’s a good chance all four Republican presidential candidates will visit the [...]
Tweet The Overland Park Chamber of Commerce in February released the results of a major survey of Johnson County residents, measuring their feelings about the the amount of taxes we pay and the services we get. Overwhelmingly, voters who responded to the survey said that they feel the level of taxes they pay is “about [...]
Tweet (To the tune of Tupac Shakur’s “California Love”): Johnson County, knows how to budget. In the city (citayyyy), of PV. In the county (countayyy), county of Johnson. We’re budget talkin’. We’re budget talkin’… Which is the best way I could think of to spice up this post about Johnson County’s first-ever online citizen participation [...]
Tweet A new frontier in the fight against cancer officially opened in Fairway last week. The University of Kansas Medical Center’s new Clinical Research Center, located at 4350 Shawnee Mission Parkway, will house an array of organizations and clinical operations dedicated to developing new cancer treatments — and will be an important hub in the University [...]
Tweet Faced with a smaller staff as a result of the county’s voluntary retirement incentive program, the Johnson County Library Board voted Wednesday to reduce the hours of operation at several of its branches effective Jan. 3, 2012. The Corinth branch will avoid the more drastic cuts being made at other branches, including Leawood, Oak [...]
Tweet The Johnson County Department of Motor Vehicles has closed its office at 6000 Lamar Ave. in Mission for remodeling until Spring 2012. Which mean that if have to renew your registration or get a title, you’ll have to head out to the Olathe office at 782 N Ridgeview Road. It can be quite an [...]
Tweet Mayor Ron Shaffer arrived late at Monday’s council meeting and consequently missed some of the lively debate about whether or not to put a sales tax increase to fund parks in front of Prairie Village voters — but it was because he was witnessing some lively debate at the county charter commission meeting. Shaffer [...]
Tweet By Laura Herring, DeSoto Explorer The Kansas Sheriff’s Association named Johnson County Sheriff Frank Denning Sheriff of the Year for 2011 during a ceremony last Thursday, Nov. 10. Denning, who has been sheriff since 2004, was honored for his proactive attitude towards improving the criminal justice system, according to a press release regarding the [...]
Tweet A proposal to revert Johnson County’s election system to a partisan format where every candidate on the ballot would be identified with a political party failed Monday, a move that pleased two Prairie Village residents on the county’s Charter Commission. Prairie Village mayor Ron Shaffer voted against the measure, and said the 14-9 vote [...]
Tweet Two local mayors on Monday will have a say in whether the first of several recommended changes to Johnson County’s government document will move before the County Commission: moving from a non-partisan election system to one where every candidate has a party affiliation listed on the ballot. Prairie Village mayor Ron Shaffer and Mission [...]
Tweet Johnson County released its official 2012 tax and valuation figures on Monday, with the property tax rate homeowners will pay coming in very, very slightly under what had been predicted during the 2012 budgeting process. The budget approved by the Board of Commissioners in August had an estimated mill levy of 23.256. The actual [...]
Tweet Public sector employees have been a favorite target of the Tea Party movement since its inception, blamed for putting cities and states in a bind with too-large compensation packages and pensions. But a Johnson County official is starting to wonder whether all the belt tightening at the local level isn’t having an adverse impact [...]
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