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Kansas Senate Democrats question plan to force election lawsuits to be filed in Shawnee County
Senate Democrats questioned a plan to require all election-related state lawsuits to be filed in Shawnee County, supposedly to prevent voting rights groups from looking for favorable venues.
Kansas Senate Democrats question plan to force election lawsuits to be filed in Shawnee County
Senate Democrats questioned a plan to require all election-related state lawsuits to be filed in Shawnee County, supposedly to prevent voting rights groups from looking for favorable venues.
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Lesser prairie chicken and other endangered species to get reprieve under Biden administration plans
The lesser prairie chicken, a rare dancing grouse once abundant on the Great Plains, could benefit again soon from the protection of the U.S. government.
Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector
Kansas health care providers get $900K boost for COVID-19 vaccination efforts
Community health care providers across Kansas will soon receive $900,000 in state grant funds to help with local COVID-19 vaccination efforts, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Tuesday.
Kelly appoints 3 to state’s higher education board, including Lawrence attorney
Gov. Laura Kelly moved to place a larger imprint Wednesday on the Kansas Board of Regents by naming a retired railroad executive, a prominent educator and a former Republican legislator to the state’s higher education governance board.
Ann Marsden
Grammy winner’s portrait of women Supreme Court justices headlines Sunflower Music Festival
At the Sunflower Music Festival, Grammy winner Libby Larsen is set to debut a new work celebrating the first four women to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, and Gov. Laura Kelly will narrate.
Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector
Kansas public schools calculating how to spend $830M in federal pandemic aid
TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Education plans to use a slice of $830 million […]
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector (file)
Kansas COVID-19 emergency will expire after GOP leaders refuse to meet
TOPEKA — Senate President Ty Masterson announced Tuesday that GOP legislative leaders would force an […]
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Kelly rescinding handful of executive orders, seeks extension of disaster declaration
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly prepared to issue directives rescinding seven executive orders tied to […]
Kansas clinics look for creative ways to connect with residents who need COVID-19 vaccine
As health officials across the country aim for a national 70% adult vaccination rate against COVID-19 by July 4, health centers in Kansas are finding ways to reach the most vulnerable populations in the state.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Lawmakers celebrate ‘biggest change in mental health in Kansas in 30 years’
Lawmakers gathered Thursday to celebrate the passage in April of House Bill 2208, one section of which requires state agencies to certify 26 community-based mental health centers as behavioral health clinics within 3 years and set new rates for the services they provide.
U.S. House infrastructure bill tops $5.7B in earmarks, including $49.1M for Kansas projects
U.S. House Democrats’ highway funding bill is poised to include roughly three out of five transportation projects submitted by members, as legislators vie for their share of federal dollars through the resurrected congressional earmarks process.
After story of autistic boy’s death brings attention, foster mom urges Kansans to call legislators
Tina Miller, a Comanche County resident who has provided foster care to dozens of kids and adopted three, is telling concerned foster parents to call their state representatives and senators and ask if they are willing to help.
State board lets Kansas high schools count computer course for math or science credit
The Kansas State Board of Education on Tuesday voted to allow school districts to count computer science as a math or science credit for high school graduation requirements.
August Rudisell / Lawrence Times
Kansas and Missouri utilities may use loophole to charge customers for fossil fuel lobbying
Kansas and Missouri residents’ utility bills may be helping to bankroll energy sector lobbying against policies aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
With Kansas eviction moratorium lifted, advocates prepare for surge in homelessness
Homeless shelters in Kansas metro areas are already seeing more requests for housing in the days after legislative leaders lifted a statewide ban on evictions.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Panel urges disbarment of Kansas attorney for deliberate misconduct in two high-profile trials
A three-attorney panel unanimously recommended the Kansas Supreme Court disbar a Kansas attorney for knowingly making false statements to juries during two high-profile trials and for offering dishonest claims about her prosecutorial misconduct directly to justices of the state’s highest court.
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