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State Government April 30, 2024 - 10:40 am

Kansas Senate fails to override governor’s veto of tax cut package

by Sherman Smith and Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

Three Senate Republicans joined with Democrats on Monday to sustain Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a massive tax cut package over concerns about reshaping income tax brackets and the state’s long-term fiscal vitality.

State Government April 29, 2024 - 2:58 pm

Kansas House fails to override veto on bill that would ban gender-affirming care for kids

by Sherman Smith and Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

As the Kansas Legislature renewed its yearslong assault on transgender children, Sen. Mary Ware told her Senate colleagues Monday she had a “simple” question for them: ”What is the acceptable number of youth suicides?”

Education April 29, 2024 - 12:16 pm

Kansas school finance bill, passed without ‘poison pill,’ on its way to governor

by Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

Kansas lawmakers have sent a bipartisan school finance bill that will shape state education funding for the next three years to the governor’s desk, packaging a $75 million increase in special education funding into the bill. 

Environment April 27, 2024 - 11:33 am

A ‘Green Glacier’ of trees and shrubs is burying prairies, threatening ranchers and wildlife

by Celia Llopis-Jepsen, Kansas News Service

A juggernaut unleashed by humans is grinding slowly across the Great Plains, burying some of the most threatened habitat on the planet beneath dense junipers and shrubland.

State Government April 26, 2024 - 4:52 pm

Kansas House overrides governor’s veto of tax cut bills despite gloomy five-year forecast

by Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector

House members voted to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s vetoes of income, property and sales tax cuts that would lower state revenue by about $520 million per year.

State Government April 26, 2024 - 4:50 pm

Kansas governor slices border funding, anti-abortion program, ESU earmark from state budget

by Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector

Gov. Laura Kelly sliced tens of millions of dollars from the state budget through a series of line-item vetoes, striking out funding to deploy the Kansas National Guard to the Mexico border, support for anti-abortion programs, and another earmark for Emporia State University’s enrollment-cratering “model.”

State News April 26, 2024 - 9:21 am

Thirty-year veteran of state, federal government to seek 2nd District congressional seat

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

A former staff member for two Kansas congressmen and an appointee in the state and federal government Thursday said he would seek the Republican Party’s nomination to replace outgoing GOP U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner in the 2nd District.

State News April 26, 2024 - 9:18 am

Derek Schmidt announces run for Congress, pays tribute to Donald Trump and MAGA

by Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector

Former Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced Friday he would run for the congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner.

State Government April 24, 2024 - 4:24 pm

Kansas governor vetoes bipartisan plan to slash income, property and sales taxes

by Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly rejected a bipartisan package of tax cuts Wednesday and proposed a cheaper […]

State Government April 24, 2024 - 1:14 pm

Kansas places into state law blueprint for reforming K-12 instruction in reading

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

Gov. Laura Kelly affirmed in law Wednesday a flurry of bills on reading literacy, employing people with disabilities, parking railroad cars adjacent to intersections and creating the crime of egging on someone to commit suicide.

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