TOPEKA — A judge in Kansas' most populous county on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional a state law requiring unusually speedy legal hearings and decisions for people challenging mask requirements and other COVID-19 restrictions. Johnson County District Judge David Hauber's ruling also ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas racial justice panel appointed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has recommended expanding Medicaid, adding another income tax bracket for top-income earners, restoring a food sales tax rebate and banning Native American mascots and team names in public schools. The 15-member ...
It may be no surprise that the newest member of the Kansas Board of Regents — coming from the state’s largest university community — doesn’t think the state’s university system needs to get any smaller. Wint Winter Jr., a longtime Lawrence resident, banker and attorney, is set to ...
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday announced that 26 Kansas nonprofit organizations, including a Lawrence nonprofit, will receive more than $4 million in Community Service Tax Credits (CSP) to enhance fundraising efforts for education, health care, child care and housing projects. The ...
TOPEKA — An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas says the state’s open records law might as well not exist if Secretary of State Scott Schwab is allowed to keep public information hidden by reconfiguring software. Attorney Josh Pierson argued Wednesday in Shawnee ...
TOPEKA — As Kansas schools face mounting pressure from parents and lawmakers to ban critical race theory from classrooms, education officials are reiterating that the subject is not part of the state curriculum. Critical race theory is the college-level study of race as a social construct ...