Story updated at 6:45 p.m. Sept. 4, 2018:
TOPEKA - Kansas Democrats on Tuesday filed a new objection to a Republican candidate running for the Kansas House in Johnson County, alleging he provided false information about where he lived at the time he changed his voter registration and filed for office.
Adam T. Thomas, of Olathe, is the Republican candidate running in the 26th District, which includes portions ...
TOPEKA - Former Republican Gov. Bill Graves on Tuesday formally endorsed Democrat Laura Kelly in the 2018 race for Kansas governor.
“Laura Kelly is the only Democrat I have ever endorsed for public office,” Graves said in a statement released by the Kelly campaign. “And the reason I’m doing that now is because I believe so much is at stake in the state of Kansas. I have known Laura for over thirty ...
TOPEKA - Kansas tax receipts came in almost exactly as projected in August, the Kansas Department of Revenue said Tuesday.
During August, the state collected $494.3 million in receipts from various kinds of taxes. That was about $6 million, or 1.27 percent, more than expected.
Individual income tax receipts came in below projections by about $4 million, or less than 2 percent, while retail sales taxes were ...
TOPEKA - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to reverse a recent lower court ruling and uphold the state's latest workers' compensation law as constitutional.
The case involves a Kansas City-area man, Howard Johnson III, who injured his back while working at U.S. Food Service in October 2015.
Two years earlier, the Kansas Legislature passed a bill updating the ...
TOPEKA – When Kansas voters went to the polls Aug. 7 for the Republican and Democratic primaries, voters in neighboring Missouri were doing the same thing.
There, however, one issue on the ballot overshadowed most of the contested partisan races: a proposition to enact what is known as a right-to-work law, which says no worker can be compelled to join a labor union as a condition of employment.
Such laws ...
TOPEKA - An investigative journalist who is trying to obtain records from across the country of voters whose registrations have been purged from state voter rolls says he will likely sue Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach for denying him access to those records.
Greg Palast, an investigative journalist, author and researcher who wrote a 2016 feature story in Rolling Stone magazine about the Interstate Voter ...
