Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly picks budget director to lead Department of Administration
Gov. Laura Kelly has appointed her budget director to serve as secretary of the Department of Administration as she kicks off her second term.
Kelly bans TikTok from state-owned devices in executive branch, says information could be leaked to China
Citing security concerns, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly banned TikTok from all state-owned devices in the executive branch and prohibited access to the social media platform on the state network.
Gov. Kelly searching for new secretaries of transportation, administration and a fire marshal
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s list of second-term executive branch vacancies climbed to three with retirement of the state’s fire marshal.
Can the Democratic governor of Kansas get Republicans on board for tax cuts in a non-election year?
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly wants to accelerate the phaseout of the state’s food sales tax. That could have the greatest impact on people with low incomes. But Republican lawmakers may not feel the need to do it.
Kelly launches legislative campaign for three-year, $500 million state tax reduction plan
Gov. Laura Kelly initiated a campaign Monday to convince the Republican-led Legislature the revenue surplus was sufficient to end the state sales tax on groceries by April 1, create a three-day sales tax holiday on school supplies and increase the state income tax exemption on Social Security benefits.
Historic preservationists pressing legal case to block demolition of Docking office building
Demolition work on the Docking state office building next to the Kansas Capitol could begin in January to prepare the site for construction of a three-story multipurpose building atop the original foundation.
Kelly v. Schmidt postmortem: Incumbency, cash and Brownback’s legacy pivotal in close race
The Dole Institute of Politics at KU on Tuesday brought together a panel of campaign staff, political scientists, a journalist and a PAC director to conduct a postmortem on the race Gov. Laura Kelly narrowly won in November.
Kansas Republicans seize on false report about drag show to attack Gov. Laura Kelly
Kansas Republicans were so excited by a drag performance, they didn’t bother to question false reporting that said the state provided funding for the event.
Governor candidates Schmidt, Kelly clash on Kansas State Fair stage in campaign’s first debate
Gov. Laura Kelly and Attorney General Derek Schmidt celebrated with rambunctious partisans at the campaign’s first debate Saturday while pointing to their own political accomplishments and heaping criticism on their main rivals in the November election for governor.
Kelly’s Kansas GOP emissaries laud her bipartisanship, question Schmidt’s loyalty to Trump
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly wasted no time launching a general-election bid to burnish her bipartisan credentials by inviting Republican moderates to tout her record and emphasize contrasts with GOP gubernatorial nominee Derek Schmidt.
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