It had been 72 hours since Ken Hush had taken over as interim president of his alma mater, Emporia State University. Despite growing up in Emporia, Hush wouldn’t exactly say he was comfortable in his new setting. He had spent more than 20 years as a successful executive with Wichita-based ...
TOPEKA — Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins stripped three Republicans of committee chairmanships for refusing to sign a petition calling for a special legislative session to redraw congressional boundaries in a bid to block reelection of Democratic U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids and to tackle a ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod is uncertain how much a voluntary early retirement program for tenured faculty may reduce the size of KU’s workforce, but he does have one belief about the university’s workforce going forward. “When you think about it, you do ultimately ...
States like Colorado, Wyoming and Utah may have mountains and canyons that beautifully fill picture windows, but Kansas has one type of window that makes geologists in those state’s envious. A window to the world beneath our feet. The Lawrence-based Kansas Geological Survey has one of the ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas House's top Republican on Tuesday dropped efforts to force a redraw of U.S. House districts that would have thrust the state into a widening national battle for partisan advantage in the 2026 elections. The announcement by House Speaker Dan Hawkins ended a weekslong push ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly took an extraordinary step Friday by filing a lawsuit directly with the Kansas Supreme Court alleging that Attorney General Kris Kobach was undermining constitutional powers assigned to the state’s governor. Kelly, a two-term Democrat, said the lawsuit was ...