Video: Gov. Brownback comments on attempts to stop national arts funding for Kansas
Gov. Sam Brownback answers a question about a group's request to have the National Endowment for the Arts pull its funding for Kansas after the state cut its own funding for the Kansas Arts Commission. The president of Americans for the Arts said that allowing Kansas to receive federal arts funding while not providing any of its own would be unfair to other states. Watch »
Video: Brownback says he will consider alternatives to closing SRS offices
Gov. Sam Brownback says he will consider alternatives to closing Social and Rehabilitation Services offices as long as the department is still able to meet its budget. The department announced Friday, July 1, 2011, that it would close nine offices, including the Lawrence office, which has 87 employees. Watch »
Video: National Organization for Women demands apology from Rep. Pete DeGraaf over abortion comments
Kari Ann Rinker, state coordinator for the Kansas chapter of the National Organization for Women, on Wednesday held a news conference outside the Capitol, saying that state Rep. Pete DeGraaf, R-Mulvane, should apologize for comments he made while debating an insurance bill that restricts abortion coverage and requires that women purchase additional insurance coverage for abortions. DeGraaf said women must plan ahead, noting that he had a spare tire in his car. DeGraaf told the Lawrence Journal-World that his comments were taken out of context, but he declined to say how. Watch »
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- Experts: Remedial college classes need fixing
- May 28, 2012
- Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular coursework. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but student loan hangovers.
- Remove politics, and redistricting map falls in line
- Reporter takes swing at drawing new boundaries
- May 27, 2012
- Kansas has a simple shape and only four congressional districts, so how difficult can it be to draw a redistricting map? Apparently, pretty difficult. Kansas is the last state in the nation to redraw its political boundaries based on population changes over the past 10 years.
- Lawmaker subpoenaed in meetings probe
- May 25, 2012
- A Kansas House member said Friday that he’s been subpoenaed by a county prosecutor investigating private meetings Gov. Sam Brownback had with legislators at his official residence.
- Obama signs disaster declaration for 14 Kansas counties
- May 24, 2012
- President Barack Obama on Thursday signed a disaster declaration affecting 14 counties that were hit last month by severe weather.
- Lawrence school official thankful for increase, ‘scared to death’ of impact of Brownback tax cuts
- May 24, 2012
- Lawrence school Supt. Rick Doll said Thursday he is thankful the Legislature approved an increase in school funding but “scared to death” about what the tax cuts signed into law by Gov. Sam Brownback will do to school budgets in future years.
- Judges allow AG Schmidt to join in redistricting case
- 12:02 p.m., May 24, 2012 Updated 07:14 p.m.
- Three federal judges are allowing the Kansas attorney general to participate in a redistricting lawsuit, but only so he can weigh in on fees sought by attorneys after the case ends.
- Dems want to keep AG Schmidt out of remap case
- May 23, 2012
- Two Kansas Democrats want the state’s Republican attorney general to stay out of a federal court case over political redistricting.
- 27 want to join Kansas redistricting lawsuit
- May 22, 2012
- The main figures in the Kansas Legislature’s rancorous debate over redistricting — except Gov. Sam Brownback — hope to participate in a federal lawsuit over lawmakers’ failure to draw the state’s political boundaries.
- Democrat announces campaign for 2nd Congressional District
- May 22, 2012
- A Topeka pastor announced Tuesday that he is running for the 2nd Congressional District which is currently represented by U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins, a Republican from Topeka.
- Brownback signs tax cuts, predicts boon; critics see budget-buster
- 01:17 p.m., May 22, 2012 Updated 05:05 p.m.
- Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday signed into law massive tax cuts that he says will boost the economy but critics say will bankrupt state government.
- Redistricting panel rejects arguments from Kobach, allows more intervenors
- May 21, 2012
- A panel of three federal judges Monday rejected arguments from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and allowed a host of plaintiffs into a lawsuit over the Legislature’s failure to redraw legislative and congressional political boundaries.
- Chief justice cancels court furloughs
- May 21, 2012
- Kansas courts will remain open through the rest of the 2012 fiscal year after legislators approved $1.1 million in supplemental funding to cover operating expenses.
- Federal court plans hearing in remap lawsuit
- 10:26 a.m., May 21, 2012 Updated 04:46 p.m.
- Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on Monday objected to attempts by several people, including a state senator at the center of a contentious debate over redistricting, to jump into a federal lawsuit over the Legislature’s failure to redraw the state’s political boundaries.
- State Rep. Bob Bethell dies in car accident
- 09:01 a.m., May 21, 2012 Updated 05:29 p.m.
- A Kansas state representative is dead after a one-car accident in Wabaunsee County.
- Legislature approves budget; tax cuts at center of dispute
- May 20, 2012
- Kansas legislators adjourned their contentious annual session Sunday with Gov. Sam Brownback’s conservative Republican allies crowing that they’ve set the state on a new and prosperous economic course with a coming wave of income tax cuts.
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- Poll: Do you support Gov. Sam Brownback's income tax cuts? May 23, 2012 · 83 comments
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- Experts: Remedial college classes need fixing May 28, 2012
- KU’s Elijah Johnson cautious at camp May 29, 2012
- Hilltop executive director Pat Pisani stepping down May 28, 2012
- Kansas football scouring country May 29, 2012
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