TOPEKA — The state of Kansas collected $173 million more in taxes during the first quarter of the current fiscal year than it did during the same period last year, an increase of 11.4 percent, the Kansas Department of Revenue said Monday. Total tax collections during the months of July, August and September totaled just over $1.5 billion, the agency reported. That compares to $1.35 billion collected during ...
TOPEKA – Kansas officials expressed cautious optimism Monday about a proposed new trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico, saying it appears to offer Kansas farmers and manufacturers greater access to international markets, although details of the agreement still need further study. Meanwhile, a University of Kansas law professor who specializes in international trade law called it a ...
TOPEKA – U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas may soon find himself at the center of one of the most complex and intensely personal issues for all Americans living in the 21st century: data security. On Wednesday of last week, the Senate Commerce Committee, on which Moran serves, held a hearing on data privacy that appeared to be a prelude to future federal legislation that would impose national standards about ...
TOPEKA - U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, of Kansas, lashed out at Senate Democrats on Friday over their handling of confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. In a statement, Roberts called the Democrats’ actions “embarrassing” and said that their attacks against Kavanaugh “have contributed to the denigration of the Senate as an institution and more important, to the fundamental ...
TOPEKA - Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole returned to the campus of his law school alma mater, Washburn University, where a bronze statue of him was unveiled Friday. Dole, 95, attended Washburn University after he returned home from World War II, finishing his undergraduate degree and earning a law degree in 1952. Speaking to a small crowd of invited guests, Dole displayed the witty, self-deprecating humor for which ...
TOPEKA — Brian McClendon, the Lawrence native and former tech executive who is now the Democratic nominee for Kansas secretary of state, said Thursday that he was unaware of a massive data breach and subsequent cover-up that occurred at Uber Technologies Inc. in 2016 while he was serving as a vice president of the company. "At the time I was a VP of engineering at Uber working on maps and machine learning. I ...