Are we safer from record floods? KC Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch share their takes on the Great Flood of 1993 from both sides of the state.
“It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when,” said the chief of emergency management with the Kansas City district of the Army Corps of Engineers. “There will be another 1993 flood event.”
But experts also say the region will be better protected than ever before.
Earlier this year, Congress approved an additional $17.4 billion in funding for levees and flood control — including $453 million for the Kansas City Levees project along the Kansas and Missouri rivers.
“I think we’re doomed to repeat ourselves because there’s just not a lot of political will to change the system.”
Great read from @_BryceGray: https://t.co/tRe8qp0Ru1 via @stltoday
— Celeste Bott (@celestebott) July 29, 2018
A lawsuit seeks $100 million in damages against the owners and operators of a duck boat that sank last week on a Missouri lake. 17 people died. The lawsuit is on behalf of two members of an Indiana family who lost nine relatives on Table Rock Lake in Branson.
In Kansas politics:
.@SenatorDole endorses @GovJeffColyer in GOP primary for Kansas governor. #ksleg https://t.co/gr07azvlHH pic.twitter.com/WhSmscg0GA
— WIBW (@wibw) July 30, 2018
Sen. Jerry Moran faced a fervent anti-Trump backlash during his stop Friday in Baldwin City: https://t.co/9ocl8Ite0B pic.twitter.com/S18SYs6n0m
— Lawrence Journal-World (@LJWorld) July 30, 2018
Wall Street Journal: Kansas Gubernatorial Race Splits GOP; The election will test voters’ appetite for politics in the style of Trump.
Gov. Jeff Colyer, who inherited his position in January after former Gov. Sam Brownback took a post in the Trump administration, is trying to survive a primary challenge from Secretary of State Kris Kobach, his strongest Republican challenger. Mr. Kobach, who was once considered a Trump cabinet pick and has led a crusade against illegal immigration, enjoys the support of national conservative figures like Donald Trump Jr. and Sean Hannity.
Though Mr. Trump hasn’t endorsed anyone in the race, Mr. Kobach mirrors the president both in political style and policy preference.
“Kobach was Trump before Trump was Trump,” said Burdett A. Loomis, a political-science professor at the University of Kansas.
Lawrence Journal-World: Amtrak considers replacing the portion of the route between Dodge City and Albuquerque with bus service. Track condition, and costs to upgrade it, is what’s driving the idea.
The city is urging Amtrak not to make changes to its train route that runs through Lawrence: https://t.co/gqV62125tz pic.twitter.com/BHxhX031OP
— Lawrence Journal-World (@LJWorld) July 29, 2018
You might be able to peer into a party-cloudy sky to see Mars tonight.
Cloudy skies? No worries. See #Mars closest approach via livestream tonight, July 30-31 from @GriffithObserv, featuring experts from @NASAJPL. https://t.co/Eb1QcBE6uG
— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) July 30, 2018
The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.