A national nonprofit dedicated to protecting freedom of speech at universities found that the University of Kansas has policies that threaten the First Amendment right.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released a report on Wednesday in which it rated 471 private and public institutions with red, yellow, or green lights, corresponding to the institution’s protection of free speech.
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If one could change one aspect of the state budget, what would that be?
That’s the question moderator Tim Carpenter asked five panelists Wednesday afternoon at the Kansas Farmers Union Convention, hosted at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Lawrence.
Carpenter, a reporter at the Topeka Capital-Journal, engaged the panelists in a series of “lightning round”-style questions. The panel discussion was meant to ...
Low-income and disabled Kansans may be able to get refunds on their sales taxes from grocery purchases if Gov. Laura Kelly implements the recommendations of her Council on Tax Reform.
Members of the council determined on Tuesday what their suggestions to Kelly would be in advance of the 2020 legislative session.
John Wilson, president of Kansas Action for Children, drafted the motion on the Food Sales Income ...
Dennis “Boog” Highberger was sitting in his Lawrence dining room, West African music playing in the background and dozens of "Last Supper" portrayals hanging on the walls around him, when someone knocked on the door.
“That might be the first pawpaw person,” the Democratic state representative said.
The music, the artwork, the nonchalant mention of an unusual fruit — and it was only the beginning of ...
Daniel Wildcat is looking forward to getting back to the classroom, but first the interim president of Haskell Indian Nations University must be replaced, and he’s not exactly sure when that will happen.
Wildcat has been serving as interim president since November of 2018, replacing Venida Chenault, who left to work on special assignment for the Bureau of Indian Education just days after a federal report ...
Shannon Blunt, a University of Kansas engineering professor whose work focuses on radar systems, will soon be appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
On Nov. 14, the White House announced its intent to appoint Blunt to the council. Blunt attended the council's meeting on Nov. 18 as a private citizen, as he has not yet been formally appointed. He said he expects the White ...
