One of the nation’s leading free speech groups says the University of Kansas doesn’t have a legal right to discipline an instructor who made classroom statements about shooting men who would never vote for a woman president.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression — FIRE — sent a letter late Friday to KU Chancellor Douglas Girod asking the university to rescind any discipline of Phillip ...
Some news and notes from around town:
— For the second week in a row, there’s news of a merger in the credit union industry. This time, credit unions from Kansas and Colorado are seeking to join forces.
Meritrust Credit Union, which has a branch in west Lawrence, has proposed to merge with Colorado-based Premier Members Credit Union.
The merger would bring together two fairly large credit unions. ...
Neither candidate in the race for Kansas Senate District No. 2 will need directions to the Statehouse.
Both have served there, although on different sides of the aisle and in different decades.
Democrat Marci Francisco and Republican David Miller are vying for the seat in Senate District 2, which covers nearly all of Lawrence, except for portions of far west Lawrence and portions of northwest Lawrence. ...
A new Kansas Senate district that pairs northwest Lawrence with east Topeka is set to produce a winner who will be new to elected office.
Democrat Patrick Schmidt and Republican Tyler Wible are vying to represent Senate District 19, which basically was created from scratch as part of the state’s once-per-decade redistricting process. In Lawrence, the district covers the area north of Sixth Street, between ...
Large parts of far west Lawrence are in a new, wide-ranging Kansas Senate district, and voters are being asked to choose between two Shawnee County residents with wide-ranging backgrounds.
Republican Rick Kloos is facing Democrat Dena Sattler in the race for Kansas Senate District No. 3. Kloos has been in the Kansas Senate since 2020, and represents part of the district currently. However, due to the ...
There are several contested legislative races in districts just outside the Lawrence city limits. Here’s a brief look at those races:
Senate District No. 9
Republican incumbent Beverly Gossage is being challenged by Democrat Norman Mallicoat in the district that includes all of the Baldwin City, Eudora and Tonganoxie city limits, and also includes De Soto and a heavily populated portion of Johnson County ...
