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As the governor, a skilled legislative veteran, prepared to deliver Kansass State of the State address, the multiple demands for state funding loomed large. The Supreme Court had mandated substantial additional monies for a critical…
Kansas lawmakers are expected to give a legislative update at 6 p.m. Monday at the Iola Senior Center. Those scheduled to attend include Sen. Caryn Tyson, Rep. Kent Thompson and Rep. Kenneth Collins. The Allen…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly outlined a proposed budget Thursday that would commit Kansas to higher spending on public schools, expand its Medicaid health insurance program and cut the states annual…
As a young mother, especially, I always admired those who could make their children mind with what seemed the slightest change in the tone of their voice or look. I had a grandmother who I…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) New Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly told Kansas legislators Wednesday that the state faces an emergency in its child welfare system and is completely unprepared for the next national economic downturn. Kelly…
WASHINGTON (AP) With shutdown negotiations deadlocked, the White House planned further meetings with rank-and-file lawmakers today, as the Trump administration acknowledged the prolonged standoff over his border wall funding demands is having a greater…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Democrat Laura Kellys top priorities as Kansas new governor arise from her work as a state lawmaker and a decade as one of the Legislatures key players on budget issues. Kelly,…
For 14 years, Laura Kelly has been the outsider looking in as a Democrat in the state senate. Though she watched Republicans set policy, Kelly didnt let her underdog status go to waste. Instead she…
After describing the increased disrepair affecting many of the countys secondary roads a consequence of the construction project currently jamming parts of U.S. 169 Allen County commissioners were able to secure a verbal…
Compromise, common sense and listening to all sides of an issue dont seem like countercultural values. Certainly, in the home I grew up in they werent. My parents belonged to separate political parties, and those…
