A funny thing happened on the way to sticking it to the billionaires. Voters in the largest liberal state in America decided not to stick ‘em. With all the election results to peruse, it would be easy to overlook one from California. Voters there by a 53% to 47% margin rejected a proposed ...
Updated at 9:23 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026 TOPEKA — Democrat Cindy Holscher has been elected Kansas' next governor, fending off Republican Ty Masterson to keep the office in her party's hands and extend a massive wave of Democratic victories across the country. Democrats had already ...
Election Day is over, but the process of certifying the votes has just begun in Douglas County — including in one close race for a House district that lies partly within the county’s boundaries. On Monday morning, workers at the Douglas County Elections Office started the process of their ...
TOPEKA — Leaders of the Kansas Legislature blocked a proposal to slash to 1% the scheduled pay raise for House and Senate members so their increase matched the percentage they granted to thousands of other state government workers. The decision by the Legislative Coordinating Council, a ...
Democrat Chris Mann has officially defeated incumbent Republican Kris Kobach in the Kansas attorney general’s race, according to a race call Friday by the Associated Press. In a rematch of the 2022 election, Mann won by a bit over one percentage point — nearly the same margin by which he ...
The elections were a one-sided affair. What happens next shouldn’t be. Instead, Democrats and Republicans should come together, look each other deeply in the eyes and say the three little words that time eternal has proven to be the glue that holds together important relationships. You ...