Story updated 9:13 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018. TOPEKA – President Donald Trump was greeted like a conquering hero Saturday in Topeka as he led a campaign rally on behalf of Kansas Republicans just hours after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. “This is a historic night,” Trump told a packed crowd at the Kansas Expocentre. “I stand before you today on the heels of a ...
Story updated at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5: TOPEKA - Both U.S. senators from Kansas voted Friday to advance the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran, both Republicans, were part of the 51-49 majority that voted in favor of ending debate on the nomination and sending it to a final vote, which is expected Saturday. If confirmed, Kavanaugh is ...
TOPEKA - Kansas Republicans on Friday were making final preparations in advance of President Donald Trump's scheduled campaign rally on Saturday in Topeka, which could be the president's first public appearance after the U.S. Senate votes on the highly charged nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Trump is scheduled to speak at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Kansas Expocentre, during a rally for ...
TOPEKA - Republican congressional candidate Steve Watkins said Wednesday that he wanted the United States to build a wall along the Mexican border and crack down on illegal immigration "to keep our culture," and that younger workers today should expect to see smaller Social Security benefits than their parents and grandparents. Democrat Paul Davis, meanwhile, said he thought immigrants living and working in the ...
TOPEKA - A group of Kansas lawmakers on Wednesday began thinking about all of the competing demands they will face in the next legislative session over how, or whether, to spend the nearly $100 million in unexpected tax receipts the state has received so far this fiscal year. After a number of years of persistent revenue shortfalls that followed after the massive 2012 tax cuts enacted during former Gov. Sam ...
Story updated 4:35 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2: TOPEKA – Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott announced Monday that it will close its doors by the end of the year, a move that is already reigniting debate in Kansas over expanding the state’s Medicaid system under the federal Affordable Care Act. The closure of the Fort Scott hospital comes three years after another hospital, which was owned by the same St. Louis-based ...