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McPherson

• Commissioners will vote on issuing $1.78 million in temporary notes for a new fire truck and finalize logistics for the 113th All Schools Day festival. →
• Summary of citizen journal's school bond coverage, including bond chatbot. →
• Construction on the Northview Sidewalk Project is entering its final stages, with the majority of the concrete poured and landscaping work expected to begin shortly. →
• A new lumber business has installed storefront signage at the former Jantz Lumber yard in McPherson as owners prepare for an official opening. →
• McPherson's Carter Leathers placed third in the heavyweight class and Dylan Hall finished fifth at 215 pounds during the state wrestling tournament in Salina. →
• The No. 6-seeded McPherson Bullpups will host the Ulysses Tigers at McPherson High School on Wednesday in the Class 4A Sub-State 4 quarterfinals. →
• The No. 8-seeded McPherson High School girls basketball team will face No. 9 Buhler on Tuesday, with the winner likely advancing to play top-seeded Wellington. →
• The McPherson Lady Pups second-grade basketball team finished a perfect 7-0 season in the Hutchinson recreation league with a final 22-2 victory. →
• The McPherson second-grade Pups youth sports team concluded their season in the Hutchinson recreation league with a 5-1 record. →
• The McPherson 5th-grade girls basketball team captured the state championship with three dominant victories, fueled by strong defensive pressure and offensive rebounding. →
• It’ll be a gray and chilly day in McPherson with a high near 47 and a slight chance of early morning drizzle giving way to cloudy skies.

🌾 Kansas

• Kansas political leaders split largely along party lines after President Trump announced U.S. strikes on Iran, with Republicans voicing support and Democrat Sharice Davids warning against wars without congressional authorization. →

• Kansas homeowners now pay 57% of all property taxes statewide — up from 38% in 1997 — as legislative exemptions for commercial and industrial property have shifted the tax burden onto residential owners. →

• A 4.1 magnitude earthquake struck near Cowles, Nebraska, approximately three hours from Omaha on KS-NE border, with residents across the Omaha metro area reporting feeling the rumble. →

• No. 2 Arizona defeated No. 14 Kansas 84-61 to clinch at least a share of the Big 12 title, dropping Kansas to fifth place in the conference standings. →

• Kansas is observing Severe Weather Preparedness Week from March 2-6 with a statewide tornado drill set for Wednesday, March 4 at 10 a.m. →

🇺🇸 US

• The United States and Israel killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and decimated Iran's military leadership in a three-wave assault Saturday after the CIA tracked a high-level meeting at Tehran's National Security Council offices. →

• Three U.S. servicemembers were killed and five wounded in strikes against Iran that have killed more than 500 Iranians, while three U.S. F-15 fighters were mistakenly shot down over Kuwait by friendly forces with all crew surviving. →

• President Trump said the U.S. strike on Iran killed most potential successors to Khamenei, including members of a three-person interim leadership council formed under Iran's constitution. →

• Iranian drones struck Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil terminal, the world's largest export facility handling 6.5 million barrels daily, sending Brent crude futures up over 7 percent. →

• The Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk and awarded a $200 million classified AI contract to OpenAI after Anthropic refused to allow its technology for autonomous weapons or surveillance of Americans. →

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March 2 1836: Texas declares independence

The Texas Declaration of Independence was issued, during the Texas Revolution, as American settlers in Texas broke away from Mexico while Santa Anna’s army was besieging the Alamo. They were reacting to what they saw as the dictatorship of Santa Anna, limits on immigration from the U.S., and especially Mexico’s ban on slavery, which the new Texan constitution explicitly protected. For the public today, this moment matters because it shows how disputes over governance, rights and slavery shaped not just Texas, but the expansion of the United States and the coming conflicts over slavery nationwide.

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