3/21/2023 0 Comments Abilene reflector chronicle“Most of us that grew up in Kansas grew up with a locker plant in town. “There are thousands of small packing plants across the country,” he said. Michael Bennet of Colorado are seeking changes to local beef packing plants like those in Clay Center and Herington. “I am particularly interested in this issue because as a Kansan, we produce so much food that we ought to be part of the solution to reducing the number of people that are hungry.” “We pay attention to hunger issues and there is a significant need that sometimes goes unrecognized across Kansas for families in our own state,” he said. Moran is co-chair of the Senate’s hunger caucus. The number of meals being served has increased from an average of 180 per day last year to over 500 per day so far the first week hot meals were distributed. “The regulations used to provide that it needed to be what they call congregate meals, that students had to eat together,” he said. Department of Agriculture which administers the program so that school districts could provide meals outside a lunchroom setting. He said the Legislature provided waivers through the U.S. “It has been very beneficial to communities, to families and children across Kansas,” he said. Moran visited Abilene to witness the Summer Lunch Program administered by the Abilene schools. “We need to provide more resources to local law enforcement to do a better job of attracting and retaining the right kind of law enforcement, those individuals who have a desire to do right. “Again, the country is different from one place to another,” he said. Law enforcement and its relationship with the community is something that needs to be promoted. “All of those things need to be increased. “We have been increasing the funding on community relations, community policing, better training,” Moran said. Moran is chair of the sub-committee that appropriates money for the Department of Justice which grants funds to local law enforcement. “What changes we need to encourage at the state and local level but what to legislate at the Federal level in regard to law enforcement,” he said. Tim Scott from South Carolina to lead an effort to determine what legislation would be beneficial to improve the circumstances of relationships among races in this country, he said. Moran said that the Senate is in session and the Republican leadership has asked Sen. This is a prefect time as the economy needs a boost for Abilene to invite people who may not be able to do other things right now to see the presidential library, he said.Īccording to the Dickinson County Health Department reopening plan, museums in the county are allowed to be open. “It is something they could be doing while other things have been shut down,” he said. Moran said on his way to Abilene, he was thinking he should be promoting the Presidential Library. “The circumstances in Abilene are significantly different than the circumstances that are in other places where there are presidential libraries,” he said. We will make that case to the National Archives starting today. Each circumstance where a presidential library is located is different. “These decisions need to be made locally. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home web page “we will only open our facilities when our assessment aligns with the criteria and requirements laid out by the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management.” “I was not aware the museum was not open.”Īccording to the Dwight D. “Someone needs to complain to me and someone needs to complain to the National Archives,” he said. When he was asked about how to get the museum and campus open to the public, Moran said he didn’t know it was closed. Moran visited Abilene to witness the Summer Food Lunch Program administered by the United States Department of Agriculture. Eisenhower Museum and Library were closed. It was upon his arrival at Abilene Middle School that he learned the Dwight D. Senator Jerry Moran when he stopped in Abilene Friday. Olympic Sexual Abuse InvestigationĪ visit to one of his favorite places in Kansas had crossed the mind of U.S.
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