Kansas Helen Podcast

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses economic development in Kansas, focusing on how growth strategies should prioritize improving quality of life for residents alongside attracting new investment. The conversation explores balancing community needs, local planning, and long term sustainability when shaping economic poli...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses economic development in Kansas, focusing on how growth strategies should prioritize improving quality of life for residents alongside attracting new investment. The conversation explores balancing community needs, local planning, and long term sustainability when shaping economic poli...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses transportation policy and how infrastructure decisions affect daily life for Kansas residents. The conversation focuses on maintaining roads and public infrastructure, improving accessibility for growing communities, and balancing long term planning with responsible use of public fund...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses transportation policy and how infrastructure decisions affect daily life for Kansas residents. The conversation focuses on maintaining roads and public infrastructure, improving accessibility for growing communities, and balancing long term planning with responsible use of public fund...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses artificial intelligence and data privacy, focusing on how emerging technology should be balanced with protections for personal information and public accountability. The conversation explores responsible innovation, safeguards against misuse of personal data, and the role state lawmak...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses artificial intelligence and data privacy, focusing on how emerging technology should be balanced with protections for personal information and public accountability. The conversation explores responsible innovation, safeguards against misuse of personal data, and the role state lawmak...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses water policy, agriculture, and energy challenges facing Kansas, including groundwater sustainability, long term resource planning, and balancing agricultural needs with conservation efforts. The conversation explores how state policy decisions today will shape the future of rural comm...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses water policy, agriculture, and energy challenges facing Kansas, including groundwater sustainability, long term resource planning, and balancing agricultural needs with conservation efforts. The conversation explores how state policy decisions today will shape the future of rural comm...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses reproductive rights and abortion policy in Kansas, including respecting voter decisions and how lawmakers approach healthcare policy affecting families across the state. The conversation focuses on legislative responsibility, individual healthcare decisions, and access to reproductive...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses gun policy and public safety, including approaches to reducing gun violence while respecting Second Amendment rights. The conversation explores safe storage measures, suicide prevention efforts, and policy ideas focused on protecting both individual rights and community safety. See th...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses representation and policies affecting marginalized communities, including the importance of ensuring all Kansans have a voice in the legislative process. The conversation explores concerns about discrimination protections, public participation in policymaking, and how legislative deci...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses policing and prison policy, including the role of de-escalation, mental health crisis response, and reducing unnecessary incarceration. The conversation explores how investing in appropriate community resources and support systems can improve public safety while easing the burden plac...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses healthcare access in Kansas, including Medicaid expansion, rural hospital stability, and barriers families face when trying to access affordable care. The conversation also focuses on mental health services and how state policy decisions impact healthcare availability across communiti...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses childcare access and affordability, including challenges families face finding available care and the balance between maintaining safety standards and supporting childcare providers. The conversation explores workforce shortages, licensing requirements, and how improving awareness of...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses SNAP benefits and how food assistance programs support working families, seniors, and people with disabilities across Kansas. The conversation addresses common misconceptions about participation and fraud, along with challenges eligible families face when navigating program requiremen...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Sherry Giebler discusses STAR Bonds and large economic development projects, focusing on how public infrastructure investments are funded and the long term commitments communities take on when major developments are approved. The conversation explores questions about public benefit, transparency, and whether...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. Property taxes were one of the most common concerns raised by voters during Sherry Giebler’s campaign conversations. She discusses the challenge of providing tax relief while still funding essential services like public schools, emergency response, and infrastructure, along with the confusion many residents f...

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Sherry Giebler discusses why she decided to run for the Kansas House and how her experience as a public school counselor and therapist influenced that decision. She talks about concerns with current legislative priorities, the importance of listening directly to constituents, and her view that state representatives should remain accessible and accountable to everyone in their district, including t...

Sherry Giebler is running for Kansas House District 14, representing a portion of Olathe. In this part of the conversation, Sherry Giebler talks about her personal experience struggling financially while putting herself through college and what it meant to live down to the last penny. The discussion focuses on how lived economic experience shapes perspectives on public policy, representation, and...

On February 3, 2026, I interviewed Sherry Giebler, a candidate for Kansas House District 14, that covers s portion of Olathe. Our conversation covered state policy, representation, and voter issues. The discussion began with Giebler’s background and economic experience. Giebler recounted working multiple jobs to finance her education and later dedicating over three decades to public education and...

Cheri Koochel is running for Kansas House District 107, representing communities across Mitchell, Ottawa, Cloud, and Saline counties, including parts of Concordia and Salina, as well as many small towns across north-central Kansas. In this video, the conversation wraps up with final thoughts from the interview, reflecting on the key issues discussed and her overall vision for representing District...

Cheri Koochel is running for Kansas House District 107, representing communities across Mitchell, Ottawa, Cloud, and Saline counties, including parts of Concordia and Salina, as well as many small towns across north-central Kansas. In this video, the conversation focuses on minimum wage, where Cheri strongly expresses her belief that the minimum wage in Kansas should be raised. See the full interv...

Cheri Koochel is running for Kansas House District 107, representing communities across Mitchell, Ottawa, Cloud, and Saline counties, including parts of Concordia and Salina, as well as many small towns across north-central Kansas. In this video, the conversation focuses on water resources and agriculture, discussing sustainability, rural economic impacts, and how state policy decisions affect far...

Cheri Koochel is running for Kansas House District 107, representing communities across Mitchell, Ottawa, Cloud, and Saline counties, including parts of Concordia and Salina, as well as many small towns across north-central Kansas. In this video, the conversation focuses on policing and the prison system, discussing public safety, accountability, and how criminal justice policies impact communitie...