TOPEKA — The mayor of Kansas City, Kansas, asked the Legislature to reward cities that invest heavily in bringing the Kansas City Chiefs across the state line by granting them voting rights on a new board that would own and oversee the NFL franchise’s $3 billion domed stadium and a separate ...
No, the University of Kansas won’t be allowed to unilaterally sell Allen Fieldhouse or throw open the doors of the university to controversial private equity investors. Not that there was ever any such proposals to do so. However, a last-minute bill introduced Wednesday in the Kansas ...
The Kansas Board of Regents — the organization that oversees the leaders who hand out grades to thousands of the state’s college students — had the tables turned on it at Wednesday’s meeting. Lt. Gov. David Toland, who also is Kansas’ secretary of commerce, came to Wednesday’s ...
A late-arriving bill in the Kansas Legislature has a power struggle brewing between the Kansas Board of Regents and the University of Kansas, among others. A bill introduced Wednesday morning would strip the Kansas Board of Regents of several key oversight powers related to KU, Kansas State ...
A court ruled Tuesday that a new Kansas law restricting bathroom use and ID changes for transgender people can remain in effect. The ruling means that transgender people must use bathrooms in government-owned buildings that align with their sex assigned at birth. Driver’s licenses and birth ...
TOPEKA — Rabbi Moti Rieber sat on the tiled floor, legs akimbo, in front of the arched passage leading to the Kansas Senate chamber with at least 20 people behind him and more lining the walls with handmade signs. “We are here because when injustice becomes law, then resistance is ...