Story updated at 6:55 p.m. Aug. 21, 2018: TOPEKA – Officials with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Tuesday that they are prepared to sign a new contract with a company that processes applications for KanCare benefits that will be more enforceable than the previous contract and will help the agency clear up a backlog of applications. The only problem, KDHE Secretary Jeff Andersen told ...
TOPEKA – State officials said Monday that they will not seek damages against a contractor who they say has been responsible for long delays in processing Medicaid applications, in part because an audit report released earlier this year undermines any legal case they might try to make. Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Jeff Andersen had previously told a legislative oversight committee that ...
TOPEKA — With independent candidate Greg Orman now officially in the race for governor in Kansas, Republicans and Democrats alike are scrambling to figure out how he affects the race. Orman, 49, an Olathe businessman, first made political news in Kansas in 2014 when he ran as an independent against Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, getting 43 percent of the vote. His basic campaign theme is that the ...
TOPEKA – The Kansas economy recorded its 14th consecutive month of job growth in July, the Kansas Department of Labor said Friday. Preliminary numbers show that on a seasonally adjusted basis, Kansas gained 23,400 nonfarm jobs overall during that period, including 20,900 private-sector jobs. That represents about a 2.4 percent increase in private-sector employment, slightly higher than the national growth ...
Story updated 5:51 p.m. Aug. 17, 2018: TOPEKA – Kansas election officials announced Friday that independent candidate Greg Orman gathered more than enough valid petition signatures to qualify to be on the Nov. 6 general election ballot in the governor's race. He will appear on the ballot with his lieutenant governor running mate, Sen. John Doll, of Garden City, a former Republican who registered as an ...
An official canvass of primary election ballots in Douglas County on Thursday gave Gov. Jeff Colyer a net gain of 20 votes in the Republican gubernatorial primary, a small consolation after he conceded the race two days earlier. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said after the canvass that 66 provisional ballots were added to Colyer's column while 46 were added for Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has already ...