TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers approved a new, slightly smaller package of tax cuts before adjourning their annual session early Wednesday, expecting Gov. Laura Kelly to veto it and call a special legislative session to push for a plan more to her liking. The Democratic governor and ...
Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate, features prominently in some Democratic nightmare scenarios. A close race develops between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. Trump wins the election with Stein pulling in a small but significant number of votes in a ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of their users. The justices rejected an emergency appeal filed by the Free Speech Coalition, a trade association for the adult entertainment industry. The provision of ...
TOPEKA — Republican legislators narrowly failed again Monday to enact a broad package of tax cuts over Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto, making it likely that lawmakers would end their second annual session in a row without major reductions. The state Senate voted 26-14 to override Kelly's ...
TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers have sent a bipartisan school finance bill that will shape state education funding for the next three years to the governor’s desk, packaging a $75 million increase in special education funding into the bill. Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 387 out of the House by a ...
Updated at 11:45 p.m. on Monday, April 29, 2024 TOPEKA — A proposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in Kansas died Monday when two Republicans switched their votes and prevented the Republican-controlled Legislature from overriding the Democratic governor's veto of the ...