The numbers of the moment have not been kind to universities across the state. At the University of Kansas, $40 million is the amount of budget pain leaders here worry about if new regulations are placed on how universities can spend federal grants from the National Institutes of Health. At ...
TOPEKA — Two tax bills will head to the Kansas governor’s desk after clearing the Senate Thursday, but Republicans and Democrats differed on whether the tax relief made good on their campaign promises to Kansans. Senate Democrats condemned the legislation in back-to-back debates as ...
TOPEKA — Republican legislators in Kansas on Tuesday shrunk what already was among the nation's shortest windows for voting by mail, arguing that problems with the U.S. Postal Service's handling of ballots required the move. Critics called it voter suppression. The GOP-supermajority ...
A bill in the Kansas Legislature aims to help fund the state’s roads by adding additional fees for electric vehicles and hybrids, but the proposal would put a much larger fee on hybrid trucks than similar hybrid sport utility vehicles. Under one plan, owners of hybrid trucks, which include ...
Justice Evelyn Wilson, who has served on the Kansas Supreme Court since January 2020, announced Monday that she will resign effective July 4. In her letter of resignation to Gov. Laura Kelly, Wilson cites a recent diagnosis of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, as the reason for her ...
A bill in the Kansas Legislature that would limit state tax credits for affordable housing projects would "severely hinder” the city’s housing goals, officials in Lawrence said. The Kansas House of Representatives recently adopted House Bill 2119, which would discontinue the state’s ...