State Government

Kansas loses legal fight over voting law passed in 2021

MISSION — Kansas has lost a legal fight over one of the voting laws that its Republican-led Legislature passed in the wake of the 2020 election. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil ruled Thursday that it was unconstitutional to make it a crime for groups to include voters' names, addresses ...

Will strict new anti-trans laws in Kansas keep people and companies away?

WICHITA — Ophelia Quayle grew up in Wichita, but when it was time to pick a college, she decided to go out of state. Now that Kansas is enacting some of the country’s most burdensome restrictions on transgender rights, Quayle — a transgender woman — says she’s not coming ...

‘Literally trying to exist’: Hundreds of LGBTQ lawmakers fighting discriminatory laws

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — State Sen. Shevrin Jones can often be seen at the Florida Capitol greeting staff and colleagues with a smile or laugh, but when he's alone it's a different story. "The outward expression is to show God's love. That's what I was taught," said Jones, a Democrat. But, he ...

A veto and a switch: Kansas won’t see any big tax cuts this year

TOPEKA — No big tax cuts are coming for Kansas residents even though the state treasury is bulging with surplus cash and the Democratic governor and top Republican lawmakers both said over and over that families need relief from inflation. Republican leaders went into the final days of the ...