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GOP 3rd district field narrows as Colyer endorses Jordan
Monday, December 14State Sen. Jeff Colyer, Overland Park, announced Monday morning that he will not seek the Republican nomination for the 3rd district U.S. House seat, and he endorsed Nick Jordan.
Video: Parkinson to sign smoking ban into law
Governor Mark Parkinson is expected to sign a bill for a statewide smoking ban into law this week. The bill would help keep Kansas air cleaner and healthier for Kansans to breathe. Watch »
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Sunflower Electric coal plant
After months of debate and legislative battles, Sunflower Electric Power Corp. will be allowed to build a new, coal-fired power plant in Southwest Kansas. Trace the history of the disagreement and look back on how we got here.
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More Kansas government
- Educator groups tell Senate to raise taxes to close state budget deficit
- March 11, 2010
- Two Kansas education groups and a school superintendent have urged a legislative committee to raise taxes.
- House speaker unsuccessfully tells legislative budget director not to implement agreed upon pay cuts
- 09:48 a.m., March 11, 2010 Updated 05:14 p.m.
- Top Democrats criticized an unsuccessful push by Kansas’ Republican House speaker to delay pay cuts for legislative leaders’ staff — including the speaker’s wife — because the state law imposing them took effect Thursday.
- Statehouse Live: Kansas proposal to block federal health reform debated before panel
- 09:37 a.m., March 11, 2010 Updated 09:37 a.m.
- A legislative subcommittee studying SCR 1626 took no action.
- Senate panel to vote next week on regulations for campaigns to oust, retain sitting judges
- March 11, 2010
- A Kansas Senate committee expects to vote next week on a bill regulating campaigns to oust or retain members of the state’s appellate courts.
- House gives first-round approval to passenger rail legislation
- March 10, 2010
- The Kansas House gave tentative approval Wednesday to a measure laying the foundation for expanded passenger rail service through the state.
- House approves bill to allow multiple districts to work out consolidation agreements
- Previous law had only allowed mergers
- March 10, 2010
- The Kansas House has approved legislation that would allow consolidation talks among multiple school districts.
- Parkinson signs into law ban on K2
- 01:32 p.m., March 10, 2010 Updated 01:32 p.m.
- House Bill 2411 amends the Kansas Uniform Controlled Substance Act to include several synthetic cannabinoids.
- KU Cancer Center gets $700K to recruit top-notch researcher
- March 10, 2010
- Kansas Bioscience Authority approves funding to bring cancer scholar to KU.
- State smoking ban will prohibit some outdoor smoking at Lawrence businesses
- New law makes it illegal to smoke within a 10-foot radius of a doorway
- 12:13 p.m., March 10, 2010 Updated 06:07 p.m.
- A recently approved statewide smoking ban likely will make it illegal to smoke in many of the sidewalk dining and drinking areas in downtown.
- Douglas, Leavenworth counties in line for more fuel tax revenue under bill approved by Senate committee
- 09:35 a.m., March 10, 2010 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- A Senate committee has approved a measure designed to correct problems that arose when the state made errors in the distribution of fuel tax revenue.
- Kansas group plans TV ad in coordination with National Problem Gambling Awareness Week
- March 10, 2010
- A new television ad is in the works from a group aiming to raise public awareness of gambling addictions.
- State unemployment rate climbs upward in January
- March 10, 2010
- The Kansas unemployment rate jumped to 7.1 percent in January, up from 6.2 percent in December, officials reported Wednesday.
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- Statehouse Live: Kansas proposal to block federal health reform debated before panel March 11, 2010
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