TOPEKA — Kansas counties issued $18.3 billion in industrial revenue bonds to new and existing businesses between 2010 and 2024, leaving about $1.1 billion in potential property taxes on the table, legislators learned Wednesday. The Legislative Post Audit Committee reviewed an audit of ...
There were only a few ticks left on the clock until retirement officially began. Blake Flanders, president and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents, had agreed to do a 2 p.m. interview with the Journal-World on June 30, the last day of the state’s fiscal year. That also meant it was the last ...
TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall vowed to be on the Kansas general election ballot in November and to decline administrative appointment from President Donald Trump during the next two years. Marshall, a Kansas Republican seeking reelection to a second term in the U.S. Senate, made the ...
TOPEKA — Republican Philip Sarnecki’s stump speech at a campaign fundraiser in Leawood delved into his youth in Illinois, a prosperous business career, reasons for running for governor and a theory about how he could win the GOP nomination in August. He offered play-by-play on a call from ...
For years, Douglas County health officials have fought to save people from opioid overdoses and addiction. But all that time, they say, a legal opioid-like substance has been “ubiquitous” in smoke shops all over town. It’s kratom, and now its days on the shelf in Kansas are numbered. ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Revenue secretary plans to retire from the agency at the end of July after serving during the two terms of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. Mark Burghart, with four decades of experience as a tax attorney, plans to step down July 31. He’s been secretary of ...