Topeka

• Go Topeka stated the proposed Compass Datacenters project is not seeking local financial incentives through JEDO. →
• Go Topeka awarded $163,000 in small business incentives to 13 companies, generating an estimated $860,000 in private capital investment. →
• Washburn Tech North launched its first TopCity FAME manufacturing apprenticeship cohort with 17 students and 10 local employers. →
• French AI microbiology firm Spore.Bio moved into Link Innovation Labs in Topeka, becoming the shared facility's first tenant. →
• Go Topeka's Economic Mobility Funds program has awarded $317,448 this year to support local entrepreneurs and redevelopment projects. →
• Shawnee County prosecutors charged Jordan L. Jenson, 35, with first-degree murder in the killing of a 53-year-old Topeka woman. →
• Expect a chance of morning showers and thunderstorms followed by mostly cloudy skies today, with a high near 83°F.

🌾 Kansas

• Residents raised conflict-of-interest concerns at a Sept. 9 meeting over Go Topeka's land ownership ties and its chairman's role at a firm assisting the proposed Compass Datacenters campus. →

• Kansas communities including McPherson County, which adopted a permanent zoning ban Aug. 31, are writing battery storage rules before developers submit projects, while Emporia voters will decide a proposed ban Nov. 3. →

• Kansas Lt. Gov. David Toland announced a $500,000 pilot program Sept. 9 to fund a rapid makeover of one downtown block, with applications open Sept. 11-30. →

• Kansas wheat farmers face higher prices, with cash quotes near $9.42 a bushel Sept. 1, but dry soil conditions threaten fall planting as 66% of the state's topsoil was rated short or very short of moisture Aug. 30. →

• The National Weather Service in Wichita said Sept. 4 that a very strong El Niño could bring wetter conditions to Kansas from fall through spring 2027. →

🇺🇸 US

• President Trump promised $5,000 "Trump Dividend" payments to every American adult if Republicans retain the House and Senate in the Nov. 3 elections, offering no funding plan or distribution timetable. →

• Democratic Sen. John Fetterman appeared by prerecorded video at the RNC's midterm convention in Dallas on Sept. 9, introducing GOP Sen. Dave McCormick while affirming he will continue caucusing with Senate Democrats. →

• Apple CEO John Ternus unveiled the company's first folding iPhone, the $1,999 iPhone Duo, during his debut product keynote since succeeding Tim Cook. →

• Ukraine's Special Operations Forces said long-range drones struck two gas condensate plants in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets region roughly 1,900 miles away, marking Kyiv's deepest strike inside Russia since 2022 if confirmed. →

• Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it targeted two American warships and eight oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for the U.S. destruction of five Iranian oil tankers, sending Brent crude above $100 a barrel for the first time since May. →

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SEPTEMBER 10, 1897: FIRST DRUNK DRIVING ARREST

On this day in London, 25-year-old taxi driver George Smith became the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after crashing his electric cab into a building. His case set an early legal precedent by applying existing laws about being drunk in charge of a carriage to the new world of motor vehicles.

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