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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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Kansas racial justice panel turns focus to equitable distribution of federal aid
As Kansas is set to receive about $1.6 billion in discretionary pandemic relief aid from the federal government, a state equity panel wants to ensure minority and at-risk communities have a seat at the table when deciding how to dole those funds out.
Federal lawsuit challenges Kansas’ new advance mail balloting process
A pair of nonprofit organizations working to encourage voting by mail Wednesday filed a lawsuit to block enforcement of a new Kansas law banning out-of-state entities from sending advance mail ballot applications to voters in the state.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
‘This is a tragedy’: Lawmakers want accountability after death of Kansas foster child
Lawmakers say the death of an autistic boy in state custody demonstrates the need for more accountability within the Kansas foster care system.
Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector
Kansas business leaders, governor meet amid push to end extra unemployment benefits
A group of business leaders from across Kansas met Tuesday with Gov. Laura Kelly, pushing the Democratic governor to change her stance on supplemental unemployment insurance offered during the pandemic. However, Kelly has shown no inclination toward doing so.
Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector
Coalition of Kansas organizations challenge constitutionality of Kansas election laws
The League of Women Voters of Kansas and three other organizations Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging constitutionality of election reforms described by plaintiffs as a brazen attempt to suppress participation by minority, disabled and elderly voters.
David Condos/Kansas News Service
Resistance among Kansans to COVID-19 vaccine is fading, except where it isn’t
New survey results show that reluctance to get COVID-19 vaccinations has dropped in Kansas. At the same time, worries about vaccine side effects seem to be increasing.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Legislative leadership extends disaster declaration through June 15, ends block on evictions
Kansas legislative leaders moved Friday to extend the state of emergency for the pandemic through June 15, while ending the block on evictions, despite requests from the governor for a 30-day extension.
Ethics panel fines anti-abortion activist $5,000 for campaign report failures
Conservative activist Mark Gietzen received a $5,000 fine from the state ethics commission for failure to submit timely campaign receipt-and-expenditure reports in the wake of an unsuccessful bid for mayor of Wichita.
Greg Kramos / USFWS
Lesser prairie chicken may be listed as threatened in Kansas, endangered in southwest
Lesser prairie chickens could be listed as a threatened species in Kansas and northern stretches of the bird’s habitat, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday.
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Kansas lawmakers fail to override veto of ‘junk’ insurance expansion, urge end to unemployment boost
TOPEKA — Republicans in the Senate and House punctuated the close of the 2021 legislative […]
Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
Kansas GOP lawmaker describes peculiar school incident as potential ‘psychotic episode’
State Rep. Mark Samsel allegedly abused Wellsville High School teenagers while working as a substitute art teacher by kicking one in the groin and intimidating others by grabbing students and ranting about religion, music and sex.
Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector
Kansas education funding hike, school choice eligibility expansion signed into law
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday commended a new bipartisan education law increasing education […]
Kansas AG among Republicans objecting to proposal on teaching about racism
Twenty Republican attorneys general, including Kansas’, argue that public schools should not be given grant funds for “any projects that characterize the United States as irredeemably racist or founded on principles of racism.”
Kansas contemplating $200M–$250M overhaul of law enforcement training center
Proposed modernization of the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center in Hutchinson at a cost of $200 million to $250 million would adhere to curriculum and instructional reforms necessary to prepare a new generation of public-safety officers, officials said.
Kansas equity panel turns attention to racial disparities in childcare, early childhood education
A panel focused on promoting racial equity in Kansas has homed in on childcare and early childhood education as keys to addressing economic and social disparities among marginalized communities in the state.
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