TOPEKA — The Senate and House narrowly passed a bill giving 10% of registered voters in a taxing area the ability to stop some property tax increases, a move one senator called “tyranny of the minority.” Both chambers debated House Bill 2745 Friday. It passed the Senate 22-18 and the ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Legislature approved a state budget bill early Friday by working around bipartisan opposition that even lawmakers voting for it could echo. The Senate passed the bill 23-17 and the House followed at 67-53, but dissenting Republicans and Democrats in both chambers made ...
Local students — ranging from law school students to elementary students — will get a chance to visit in person with a sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice next month. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be visiting the University of Kansas campus on April 6 and April 7, KU’s ...
If you are any type of professor at the University of Kansas, you shall make at least $70,000 per year, recently-released details of a proposed contract between KU and its faculty union show. However, if you already are making that amount, you might not receive anything more than a 1% raise, ...
TOPEKA — A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Kansas’ new law regulating bathroom use in government buildings and forcing Kansans to hold documents reflecting their biological sex at birth won’t have its next hearing until September. A Douglas County judge scheduled a Sept. 29 ...
TOPEKA — A bipartisan majority of the Kansas Senate made a legislatively tricky shot on goal before passing the ball to the team in the Kansas House. On a 21-19 vote Thursday, the Senate approved a bill allowing cities or counties to use a temporary law enabling licensed restaurants and ...