What does a leader in the local music scene do? Nick Carswell has been doing it for more than a decade, and his answer is: Whatever the musicians need him to do. Carswell, who founded the Lawrence Music Alliance in 2023, has actually been helping musicians since around 2009, when he was living ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas bill that would have required kindergarteners to be potty trained before starting school stalled in committee. House Education Committee chairwoman Rep. Susan Estes, a Republican from Wichita, declined to bring the bill up for debate Wednesday. She said she wanted to give ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas House committee recommended a budget for the state’s six public universities that freezes tuition rates, reduces need-based student aid, requires development of plans to lower central administration expenditures by 10% and offers faculty one year instead of two to fix ...
The recently signed federal legislation that headed off of a federal government shutdown included $20 million in new funding for the University of Kansas Hospital system. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, announced that the legislation signed by President Trump on Tuesday included $10 million ...
Kansas Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach wants lawmakers to force state agencies to hand over personal information about recipients of food assistance to the Trump administration. A Kansas Senate committee is considering a bill that would mandate that the Kansas Department for Children ...
A bill that would prohibit most students from being required to take diversity, equity and inclusion-related classes in order to get a degree at a Kansas university began to make its way through the Statehouse Tuesday. It also got some dollar signs attached to it as it begins its journey. ...