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Key players
- The 2007 legislative session will chug along with shifting alliances on issue after issue. Here are some of the heavy hitters who will be driving the train.
Keeping track
- www.kansas.gov The general state of Kansas Web site with links to state agencies and numerous other resources.
- www.kslegislature.org The Legislature’s Web site. You can look up bills, track their progress and get committee information. You can also find out who your legislator is and how to get in touch with him or her.
- www.kslib.info The Kansas State Library Web site that has links to governmental Web sites that cover just about every issue in the public domain.
- To check on a bill or leave a message for a legislator by telephone, call the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-432-3924.
- School district needs to cut $500K more
- July 3, 2009
- The Lawrence school district’s budget ax will need to cut deeper.
- Audit: State could save money on overtime
- July 3, 2009
- Seems like a no-brainer — state agencies paying a lot of overtime, might save money by hiring more people.
- Public schools, higher education face more cuts in Kansas budget
- Governor cuts schools, higher ed by 2 percent
- 11:34 a.m., July 2, 2009 Updated 04:58 p.m.
- Public schools and higher education were cut 2 percent by Gov. Mark Parkinson on Thursday as part of a $160 million plan to balance the state budget amid falling tax revenues.
- EPA: State must conduct review, hold hearings on latest coal-plant proposal
- 04:40 p.m., July 1, 2009 Updated 03:40 p.m.
- The EPA has told state officials to conduct a comprehensive review of the new proposal to build a coal-burning power plant in southwest Kansas, and allow public input on the project.
- Kansas delays aid payments to schools
- July 1, 2009
- Budget problems have forced Kansas to delay $73 million in aid payments due to public school districts at the end of June.
- Kansas agriculture secretary taking USDA job
- 06:04 p.m., June 30, 2009 Updated 01:09 a.m.
- Secretary of Agriculture Adrian Polansky has been tapped to head the Farm Service Agency in Kansas for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a position he held during the Clinton administration. His appointment was announced Tuesday by the Obama administration and drew praise from Gov. Mark Parkinson.
- School officials dread state budget decisions as new fiscal year starts
- June 30, 2009
- Public school officials are dreading the start of the state’s fiscal year like some students worry about the first day of school.
- Kansas revenue shortfall hits $126 million
- June 30, 2009
- Kansas is ending the 2009 fiscal year with its tax collections $126 million below estimates.
- Gov. Parkinson expects there will be more budget cuts on the horizon
- June 29, 2009
- More state budget cuts are coming. That was the word Monday from Gov. Mark Parkinson, who said the current shortfall has grown to $135 million as the fiscal year ends Tuesday.
- Governor defends regents system
- June 29, 2009
- Gov. Mark Parkinson on Monday defended the state’s system of supervising higher education in the wake of an audit that found numerous questionable financial dealings at Kansas State University.
- Gov. Parkinson says he’ll make budget cuts to address shortfall, but not across the board
- June 29, 2009
- Gov. Mark Parkinson said Monday he would make state budget cuts to address what has grown into a $135 million shortfall.
- Audit rocking Kansas higher ed
- June 28, 2009
- It was one of the strangest situations in Kansas politics in recent years, and that’s saying something.
- State Supreme Court rules against Lawrence area landowners in water case
- June 26, 2009
- A Kansas Supreme Court ruling on Friday affirms a water district’s right to get a temporary easement for test drilling for groundwater on an area farm.
- Docking named chair of regents
- June 26, 2009
- Jill Docking has been elected chair of the Kansas Board of Regents.
- Officials approve a 6 percent tuition increase at KU
- Officials raise cost, expecting budget cuts
- 12:24 p.m., June 25, 2009 Updated 02:36 p.m.
- Anticipating another round of budget cuts, the Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday approved a 6 percent tuition increase for many students at Kansas University, and a 7 percent increase on the four-year compact for the incoming freshman class.
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