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Friday, Aug. 14, 2026

National/International

How to build a financial plan when your income is unpredictable
8/13/26 MoneySense Canada
Megan McCoy, program chair for the Personal Financial Planning program at Kansas State University, says that variable income is uniquely challenging in a lot of ways. The pressures of living with variable income can lead us to make decisions that aren’t in our best interest. We take shortcuts when we have too much information, too little information, or need to act quickly. “Our brains do not like ambiguity,” she says. “When we’re worried about money being tight, we may end up making more short-term, impulsive decisions.”

State/Regional

A year later, pandemic ‘victory gardens’ are still blooming in KC
8/14/26 All for Gardening
But it’s not just stores seeing a boom. At Kansas State University, the horticulture extension provides education and technical assistance to farmers and gardeners. Johnson County horticulture extension agent Zac Hoppenstedt says he’s seen an uptick, too. “We definitely saw an increase in the quantity of inquiries coming into the office, this spring honestly probably even more so than at the beginning of the pandemic.”

Local

Environmental ed. director says drones and fire are saving the world’s most threatened biome
8/12/26 The Manhattan Mercury
“They are being lost to agricultural development,” said Jill Haukos, director of environmental education at Konza Prairie Biological Station. “You could just say ‘conversion.’ They’re being converted into something other than what they were before.”