TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate fought through a flurry of tricky procedural amendments Tuesday to more than double the financial ramifications of a bill throwing tax breaks at multinational corporations sitting on overseas profits, wealthy people keen to itemize deductions, folks excited about ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly and Democratic legislative leaders urged the Kansas Senate to include in a mammoth tax-cut bill Tuesday a two-year expansion of the standard deduction on state income taxes. The proposal was outlined in advance of debate on the Senate floor on Senate Bill 22 ...
TOPEKA — Kansas fitness club magnate Rodney Steven initiated a campaign to persuade the Kansas Legislature to rid his for-profit industry of property taxes while delinquent on at least $549,000 in pre-coronavirus property taxes owed to Shawnee, Johnson and Douglas counties. County tax ...
University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod asked a legislative committee on Monday to maintain the current level of state funding for higher education, saying that cuts proposed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly would worsen the university's already bleak financial picture. Kelly's ...
TOPEKA — Two top Republican lawmakers said Monday that Kansas might not need to keep its state of emergency for COVID-19 in place past the end of March, signaling possible internal GOP divisions about keeping the pandemic restrictions further into the spring. The comments from Senate ...
TOPEKA (AP) — A freshman Kansas House member who's due to get a public warning from colleagues about his behavior before he took office has rejoined the Democratic Party. Rep. Aaron Coleman of Kansas City, Kansas, confirmed Monday that he returned to the party last week, about three weeks ...
TOPEKA — Long-term care lobbyist Rachel Monger is convinced the Kansas law passed less than a year ago to limit civil liability of nursing homes during the pandemic fell far short. Monger, speaking on behalf of LeadingAge Kansas’ 20,000 employees serving more than 25,000 older Kansans, ...
TOPEKA — In a one-sided, two-and-a-half-hour “informational hearing” Wednesday, a parade of upset parents, children, outspoken doctors and lobbyists vented to Kansas legislators in the House K-12 Budget Committee their frustrations with the shortcomings of remote and hybrid ...
TOPEKA — Opponents of a proposal to delay or eliminate Kansans’ right to a speedy trial say if passed, the measure would be an affront to the constitution and open the door for litigation and unnecessary expenses for the state. Amid the pandemic, jury trials have all but ceased across the ...
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said Friday that both she and her husband had fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits filed in their names with the state. The Democratic governor's disclosure to reporters came amid an increasingly intense focus by the Republican-controlled Legislature ...
TOPEKA — Kansas district attorneys concerned about case backup caused by the pandemic pleaded Thursday for legislators to consider passing a measure delaying assurances of a speedy trial by several years. Current law dictates a case in Kansas must be brought to trial within 150 days, or 180 ...
Story updated at 6:34 p.m. Friday TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration plans to begin giving COVID-19 vaccinations to Kansas prison inmates next week, ignoring a call from the Republican-controlled Legislature to postpone their inoculations so that others can ...
TOPEKA (AP) — A faster-spreading coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom is probably more widespread in Kansas than a single confirmed case in the state's northwest suggests, officials with a major health system said Thursday. The first identified case of the variant came ...
NEWTON — Kansas plans to invest the nearly $85 million the state received in federal coronavirus relief funding for infrastructure programs and services in every county, leaving no part of the state behind, Gov. Laura Kelly said Thursday. The governor was joined by Transportation Secretary ...
The electrification of cars and small trucks is on the horizon, but the state of Kansas is doing the bare minimum to be prepared. A new state scorecard from the advocacy group the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy ranks the state 29th, with a score of 15.5 out of 100. Only five ...
TOPEKA — Former Govs. Mike Hayden and John Carlin threw their legacy of political insight Thursday behind the Kelly administration’s statewide economic development strategy — Kansas’ first fresh take on comprehensive expansion of job opportunities in more than 30 years. Carlin was ...
TOPEKA — Rep. Stephanie Byers castigated four Republican representatives Wednesday for introducing legislation that would put physicians in prison for providing services to transgender children. Byers, a Democrat from Wichita and the state’s first openly transgender legislator, said House ...
TOPEKA (AP) — A Kansas lawmaker and the state's Republican attorney general are pushing a bill to require high school students to pass a civics test to graduate in an effort to increase civic engagement. The proposal is facing pushback from members of the state's largest teacher's union, the ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Assurances from labor officials that new security protocols are blocking thousands of fraudulent attempts every hour to access Kansas' unemployment benefits system did little Wednesday to dispel the concerns of Republican lawmakers who fear the state is losing millions of ...
People whose identities have been used to fraudulently collect unemployment benefits from the Kansas Department of Labor are now facing another problem: making sure they don't have to pay taxes on thousands of dollars that they never received. Tonganoxie resident Nancy Landi is one of the many ...