Celia Llopis-Jepsen / Kansas News Service
Kansas is investigating the pharmacy middlemen industry, which claims to drive down drug costs but profits as prices escalate.
Brian Grimmett / KMUW
Republicans will control the redistricting process in Kansas next year. Right now, they face an uphill battle to convince residents in the suburbs of Kansas City that they won’t gerrymander the maps to supercharge Republican power.
Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector
More Kansans are dying from COVID-19 now than they were a year ago, as new cases continue to escalate and the vaccine rate remains flat.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Kansans marked the U.S. Census Bureau’s release of population data integral to the redistricting process Thursday by pummeling state legislators on a listening tour with demands that new political boundary maps that emphasize community interests rather than partisan aspirations.
Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector
Kansas health care providers aren’t ready to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees, despite rising COVID-19 case numbers and a desire to promote the efficacy of vaccines.
An expansive audit of Kansas Department of Health and Environment’s payments to companies contracted to deliver services under the state’s Medicaid program found $1.3 million in inappropriate compensation for care of people who had actually died.
Tessa Weinberg/Missouri Independent
In Kansas, just more than 56% of nursing home workers are vaccinated. The state ranks 35th.
Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector
A new eviction moratorium issued by the CDC should cover most Kansas renters, but stakeholders and advocates agree it is only a temporary solution demanding further action.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Former Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor faces an ethics complaint for prosecutorial misconduct by his assistant during the 2012 murder trial of Dana Chandler.
Research by a University of Kansas linguist and University of Missouri-Kansas City physicians pointed to the potential medical harm of ambiguous communication in operating rooms that also complicated the training of surgeons.
