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McPherson

• USD 418 voters are deciding on a two-part $89.5 million bond proposal to fund a new high school wing and the conversion of Eisenhower Elementary into a middle school. →
• A 62-year-old man died Monday after his van crossed into oncoming traffic and struck a tree at the southeast entrance of the McPherson High School parking lot. Local police are investigating the cause of the crash pending the results of a forensic medical examination. →
• The McPherson Board of Public Utilities received $2 million in federal funds to offset inflation-driven cost increases for its South Well Field infrastructure project. The investment supports three new wells and a 20-mile pipeline to ensure sustainable water access for McPherson, Windom, and surrounding rural districts through 2040. →
• The community is invited to celebrate the latest STEPMC graduates on March 9 at the West Zion Mennonite Church in Moundridge. →
• Auditions for Roald Dahl's 'Willy Wonka' will be held March 29-30 at McPherson College, with the production scheduled to run in late June. →
• The McPherson sixth-grade Junior Pups concluded their 21-9 season with a third-place finish in the school gold division at a Kansas City tournament. →
• The 1st Grade Pups boys basketball team finished a perfect 6-0 season in the Hutchinson Rec League behind a suffocating defense. →
• The 2017 MCFC girls soccer team opened their season at Stryker Complex with a 3-5 loss followed by a 4-1 rebound victory. →
• The 2016 MCFC girls soccer team kicked off their season at the Stryker complex with a 7-2 victory and a 4-4 draw. →
• Fitness expert Shelly provides a simple nutrition formula for creating healthier lunches and offers online training through her Performance Lab website. →
• Expect a cloudy and cool day with areas of fog and a few passing showers, reaching a high near 47 with some breezy northeast gusts.

🌾 Kansas

• Voters across central Kansas will decide on several local ballot measures Tuesday, with school bond proposals in McPherson and Newton and sales tax questions in Hutchinson and Wichita topping the ticket. →

• More than 100 residents packed Colwich Elementary School for a community meeting on possible data center developments in western Sedgwick County, which remains under a 90-day moratorium on new data center zoning and building permit applications. →

• Conservative lawmakers in the Kansas Senate have introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would redefine legal rights as beginning at conception. →

• A Kansas House committee has advanced a measure that would grant civil liability immunity to law enforcement officers who cooperate with federal immigration authorities. →

• Seward County Fire Chief Andrew Barkley resigned days after a tense exchange with a commissioner over radio access during wildfire response, as officials identified lack of a centralized command center as a key failure. →

🇺🇸 US

• The State Department closed its embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait after Iranian drone attacks struck both compounds and ordered Americans to immediately depart 14 Middle Eastern countries. →

• Persian Gulf nations face dwindling interceptor supplies as they defend against hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles, with experts warning current defensive burn rates can be sustained only days longer. →

• The death toll from an Iranian strike on a U.S. tactical operations center at Kuwait's Shuaiba port rose to six after recovery of two additional service members' remains. →

• Analysts project U.S. military campaigns in Iran and Venezuela could neutralize two chronic sources of oil supply disruptions and reduce geopolitical volatility in global markets. →

• Venezuela's oil exports doubled in February to 788,000 barrels per day as production recovers under U.S.-directed oversight following the capture of Nicolás Maduro. →

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March 3 1820: Congress passes the Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 let Missouri enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state while banning slavery in most of the remaining Louisiana Purchase north of the 36°30′ line, temporarily preserving the balance of power between North and South. Over time, Southern leaders chafed at these limits, and Congress’s 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the compromise by allowing settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide slavery by popular sovereignty, directly triggering the violent clashes known as “Bleeding Kansas.” The breakdown of this earlier compromise system, the bloodshed in Kansas, and the hardening of pro- and antislavery positions helped push the nation past the point of political compromise and into the Civil War in 1861.

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