Hutchinson

• The Hutchinson City Council appointed Gary Meagher as interim city manager while it prepares a search for a permanent administrator. →
• The Hutchinson City Council accepted resignations from City Manager Enrico Villegas and Assistant City Attorney Cody Smith. →
• The Kansas State Board of Education approved a Hutchinson USD 308 school bond application ahead of a planned November vote. →
• The Hutchinson USD 308 Board of Education launched a superintendent search with ESSDACK, aiming to review candidates Nov. 9. →
• Enforcing Hutchinson USD 308 cellphone restrictions has cost $40,000, including nearly $30,000 to replace wall clocks. →
• The Buhler USD 313 Board of Education scheduled candidate interviews to fill a vacant seat after Laura Meyer Dick resigned from the board. →
• Expect mostly sunny skies and a hot high of 94°F today, with gusty winds and increasing chances for showers and thunderstorms by this afternoon.

🌾 Kansas

• Vice President JD Vance touted a pandemic loan fraud crackdown affecting 870,000 people before rallying Kansas Republicans at a Sept. 14 event in Olathe ahead of the Nov. 3 election. →

• Boeing machinists in Wichita voted Sept. 12-13 to seek reintegration into the company's master contract covering Puget Sound and Portland workers, aiming to reverse a two-decade pay gap. →

• Garden City schools reported a decline of 114 students this year amid falling birth rates, a trend Citizen Journal found mirrored in districts across Kansas. →

• The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services is seeking bids by Sept. 29 for a statewide, round-the-clock mental health crisis transportation system funded by $2.46 million in federal money. →

• Wichita signed a certificate of occupancy Sept. 14 to begin taking over its delayed $550 million Northwest Water Treatment Facility, with full operations expected in early 2027. →

🇺🇸 US

• AI stocks tumbled worldwide Monday after Anthropic's CEO called for slower development, with the Philadelphia semiconductor index dropping nearly 6% even as Trump rejected new regulations and Nvidia's Huang dismissed AI doomsday warnings as "made up." →

• The EPA repealed Monday a 2024 rule requiring coal- and gas-fired power plants to cut carbon dioxide emissions starting in the 2030s, a move it says will save the industry more than $300 billion. →

• The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's emergency request to enforce a new Postal Service mail-ballot rule ahead of the midterms, leaving a lower court injunction in place. →

• The 10-year Treasury yield briefly topped 5% Monday, its highest since October 2023, as diesel prices hit a record $6.23 a gallon amid Middle East supply disruptions ahead of this week's Federal Reserve meeting. →

• Iran-backed Houthi rebels seized Yemen's Greater and Lesser Hanish islands Monday, extending their control near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and threatening a second major global oil shipping route. →

Weather

SEPTEMBER 15 1931: DIRIGIBLE BRIEFLY DOCKS AT EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

A small dirigible managed a short-lived docking at the new Empire State Building’s mooring mast before strong winds forced it to pull away. The much-publicized experiment dashed hopes that the skyscraper’s spire would serve as a convenient midtown Manhattan airship port.

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