Updated at 3:53 p.m. Wednesday
The 10-member Kansas State Board of Education on Wednesday failed to approve an executive order from Gov. Laura Kelly that would delay a reopening of public schools in the state three weeks to give local school districts more time to prepare for safely reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Barring further action from Kelly’s office, the decision on whether and when a school ...
When Republican voters in Kansas began opening their advance ballots last week, many noticed a candidate in the list of choices for U.S. Senate and wondered whether it was a mistake.
John L. Berman appears at the bottom of a list of 11 candidates for the seat and is listed as a resident not of Kansas, but of Richland, Wash. Because of a distinction written into the U.S. Constitution, though, Berman’s ...
Five area Democrats will face no opposition in the Aug. 4 primary, and no Republicans have filed to challenge them in the Nov. 3 general election.
Lawrence Sen. Marci Francisco was first elected to represent District 2 in 2004 and will serve her fifth term in the state Senate. Francisco previously served on the Lawrence City Commission and as the city’s mayor for two terms.
Lawrence Rep. Barbara Ballard has ...
Brandon Holland, son of Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, wants to make progress on Medicaid expansion, school funding and the state's recovery from COVID-19 if he's elected to the 10th District House seat.
Holland, 31, of Baldwin City, was the first candidate to file in the race and has lived in the 10th District since 1993. He currently works as a manager at a small liquor store in Lawrence, and he graduated ...
Former Baldwin City Council member A.J. Stevens, 49, says he wants to use his experience in local government to help out at the Statehouse.
Stevens is one of three area Democrats running to replace 10th District Rep. Eileen Horn, D-Lawrence, who announced in April she would not seek another term in the Kansas Legislature.
Stevens told the Journal-World when he filed his candidacy that he’d always planned on ...
It has been nearly 90 years since the state of Kansas elected a Democrat to the United States Senate.
But for months, political experts have speculated that 2020 could be the year that streak ends — depending on how the Republican primary shakes out.
Though more have filed, two leading contenders have emerged for August’s Republican primary — U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall, a physician from Great Bend, and ...
