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 ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission on Wednesday ordered Senate President Susan Wagle to pay a $100 fine out of her campaign account after an aide in her office used a state computer in July to announce her endorsement of Kris Kobach in his bid for the Republican nomination for governor. Wagle, R-Wichita, issued the statement July 25, about two weeks before the Aug. 7 primary. But the statement ...
TOPEKA — Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel is tentatively set to go on trial July 24, 2019, on charges that he and others illegally disposed of asbestos-containing material during a 2016 remodeling of the Alvamar Country Club, now known as the Jayhawk Club. Fritzel is charged, along with his son Tucker Fritzel and business associates Casey Stewart and Wesley Lynch, with violating the federal Clean Air Act by ...
TOPEKA - Personal income in Kansas grew at an annual rate of 4.7 percent during the second quarter of this year, which was better than the national average and the average for the seven-state Plains Region. That's according to a report released Tuesday from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The second-quarter growth rate was significantly better than the 1.7 percent annualized growth rate the state saw ...
TOPEKA – Democrat Laura Kelly says that if she is elected governor, she will call for reviving an economic development program that was once hailed as a promising innovation in state government but that later became the center of controversy and was eventually sold off in 2016. That program, the Kansas Bioscience Authority, was a kind of public-private partnership established in 2004 during Democratic Gov. ...
Story updated at 4:45 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24. TOPEKA — State Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, R-Leavenworth, said Monday that he is resigning from the Kansas Senate. Fitzgerald, a retired Army officer who is serving his second term in the Senate and who has made headlines with some controversial statements, ran unsuccessfully this year for the Republican nomination for the 2nd District congressional seat. He finished ...