Tag: debate

Two large placards in support of a school bond issue are propped against the west wall of Shields’ Barber Shop, 19 N. Jefferson Ave. They’re good for starting a conversation about the April 2 vote,…

Each year, Iola allocates roughly $45,000 to the Iola Area Chamber of Commerce and Thrive Allen County. The question City Council members asked Monday, was whether the city is getting sufficient bang for its bucks. For…

Republican leaders in the Kansas Senate are forging ahead with plans to plow millions into tax relief that would largely benefit big business. Some Democrats and more moderate Republicans suspect it’s also a strategy to…

This is the first in a weekly series of articles on the proposed school bond issue to be decided by voters on April 2. When Dr. Charles Wanker, chief of staff at Allen County Regional…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Democrats are attacking a Republican tax relief bill approved Thursday by the state Senate as a give-away to large corporations and managed to peel away a couple of GOP votes…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s election victory suggested that Kansas repudiated past GOP fiscal policies, yet voters also encouraged top Republicans to pursue income tax relief by giving conservatives more power in…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas collected $49 million less in taxes than expected in January, giving Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and the Republican-controlled Legislature a dose of bad news Friday at the start of debates…

Republicans and Democrats are braced for a fight over whether state government in Kansas should cash in on the ramifications of the 2017 federal tax cut. The sides are staking out their positions and could…

 Teachers fleeing the state? Promises to schools broken time and again? Here’s some context for the statements you heard about Kansas education Wednesday night — both in Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s State of the State…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are likely to face renewed debate in the next legislative session about how or whether to hold oil and gas companies accountable for property damage caused by earthquakes in…