TOPEKA — A new poll released this week suggests the Kansas governor's race is still statistically tied, despite President Donald Trump's high-profile campaign rally on behalf of Republican Kris Kobach earlier this month. The survey, by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, shows Kobach and Democrat Laura Kelly each with 41 percent of the vote. Independent candidate Greg Orman showed up with 10 percent, ...
TOPEKA — Former Kansas governor and Obama-era cabinet secretary Kathleen Sebelius offered an interesting observation when she spoke to a Lawrence audience last week. Responding to a question about whether she would ever run for public office again, she gave an emphatic "no," and then offered this advice for both political parties. "We should never, in my humble opinion, we should never have a 70-year-old ...
TOPEKA - The two major party candidates for the 2nd District congressional seat took some of the sharpest verbal jabs at each other yet in the 2018 campaign, clashing on issues ranging from Medicare and Social Security to the partisan nature of Washington politics. During a televised debate Monday night on KTWU-TV in Topeka, Democrat Paul Davis and Republican Steve Watkins each tried to portray the other as an ...
TOPEKA - Members of former President Dwight Eisenhower's family joined Gov. Jeff Colyer and other dignitaries Monday to dedicate a statue of the former commander in chief on the Statehouse grounds in Topeka. "I believe of all the honors my grandfather might have gotten at one time or another, this would be one of his most treasured," Mary Eisenhower said of the statue. "He loved Kansas. He loved Kansas so much ...
TOPEKA – Greg Orman rose to prominence in the Kansas political world quickly in 2014 when he ran as an independent candidate and threatened to unseat incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts. It was a race that drew national and international attention because the balance of power in the Senate was at stake that year. And Orman actually led in several polls leading up to Election Day, leading many to ...
TOPEKA — Republican candidate for governor Kris Kobach said this week that he agrees that the Earth's climate is changing, but he is skeptical about whether human activity is causing it, and whether it poses a major environmental concern. "The Earth’s climate has been changing ever since the Earth was created," Kobach said during an interview following a press conference Thursday. "The bigger question is ...