Kansas farm leaders are pushing Congress to get back to work and solve problems facing the agriculture industry, pointing out that a closed government doesn’t mean U.S. lawmakers can’t be in session.
A new survey shows a gulf between popular opinion and political reality in Kansas. Most Kansans support unregulated access to abortion, the legalization of recreational marijuana and Medicaid expansion, according to the survey.
The president of the Kansas Senate said Monday a sufficient number of Senate Republicans signed a petition to call a special session of the Legislature to consider new congressional district boundaries.
The Kansas abortion trial with wide-reaching implications for state lawmakers and health care providers wrapped with arguments over the two sides’ differing definitions of pain, humanity and consciousness.
The federal government shutdown could delay or halt food assistance to 188,000 people in Kansas during November.
Experts at the Southwest Power Pool project energy usage to grow by 96% during the next decade in its 14-state region, and on Friday, federal regulators gave the organization the ability to proactively plan for that growth.
Two women testified in a trial Wednesday that they regretted their abortions. However, their abortions took place before the state laws at the center of the case, which impose requirements on abortion providers and patients, were in effect.
Rep. Alexis Simmons waited until conservative Earl Glynn finished a presentation of proposed reforms to Kansas election law before raising objections with colleagues about the partisan approach of a committee assigned to work on campaign-finance transparency.
Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is volleying fresh criticism at posts made by the state GOP after Politico exposed leaders of the Kansas Young Republicans exchanging racist and homophobic messages.
The federal government shutdown could mean Kansans who rely on food assistance will miss a November payment, and the state is working to determine options should that occur.
