McPherson

• The McPherson City Commission proposed a mill levy of 53.826 mills for the 2027 budget, keeping the property tax rate nearly flat. →
• The McPherson City Commission scheduled a combined revenue neutral rate and budget hearing for Sept. 1 at the McPherson Municipal Center. →
• The McPherson USD 418 Board of Education used over $1 million from cash reserves to balance its budget for the close of the fiscal year. →
• The McPherson Board of Education approved a $10,000 budget increase for safety compliance at Lincoln and Washington elementary schools. →
• Incite Design Studio will gather feedback from teachers to help shape facility designs for the McPherson USD 418 Board of Education. →
• McPherson County mailed 70 notices regarding new inundation maps and will meet with Sedgwick County to discuss regional water concerns. →
• Grab your sunglasses, McPherson, because we have a beautiful, sunny Wednesday ahead with a high of 89°F and a light breeze from the southeast.

🌾 Kansas

• Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly denied clemency July 14 to Reginald and Jonathan Carr, keeping the death-row brothers eligible for execution over the 2000 Wichita massacre. →

• Panasonic Energy began mass production of lithium-ion battery cells July 14 at its roughly $4 billion De Soto, Kansas, plant, the largest economic development project in state history. →

• Kansas counties began mailing advance ballots and opening in-person early voting July 15 ahead of the Aug. 4 primary, which includes a wide-open governor's race. →

• Textron Aviation completed a 57,000-square-foot expansion of its flight-test hangar in east Wichita this summer to speed testing of the Cessna SkyCourier and Beechcraft Denali. →

• Former Kansas Jayhawks guard Lagerald Vick was charged with attempted first-degree murder after allegedly shooting a man in the back at a July 4 party in Memphis. →

🇺🇸 US

• ICE temporarily suspended most vehicle stops nationwide Tuesday for additional officer training after federal agents fatally shot two immigrants in separate vehicle stops within a week. →

• Consumer prices fell 0.4% in June, dropping the annual inflation rate to 3.5% from 4.2% in May as energy prices posted their steepest monthly decline since April 2020. →

• President Donald Trump said he will deliver a prime-time address at 9 p.m. Thursday focused in part on U.S. election security and voting machines. →

• New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday establishing what the state calls the nation's first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers, pausing discretionary permits for up to a year. →

• President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to order U.S. strikes on Iran's power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran resumes negotiations, as the U.S. restarted its naval blockade of Iranian ports. →

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JULY 15, 2006: TWITTER LAUNCHES AS A DIGITAL PRINTING PRESS FOR THE MASSES

Twitter’s launch turned any mobile phone into a pocket-sized publishing press, letting ordinary people broadcast short messages to the world in real time. Like the printing press shattered the monopoly of scribes and elites over written communication, Twitter weakened gatekeepers in media and politics by enabling direct, unfiltered speech. Its legacy is a new information ecosystem in which news, social movements and cultural moments can ignite and spread globally in seconds, for better and for worse. This article was written using our proprietary AI system, Cronkite. The final decision to publish this article was made by a human. For more info, read our AI policy.