When the Kansas Legislature convenes next week, the topics largely will fall into one of two big buckets — money or people. A Lawrence chamber of commerce crowd of more than a hundred heard from Douglas County’s longest-serving legislator that she continues to worry that the people issues ...
TOPEKA — Jordan Chessher senses an urgency surrounding an effort to increase the criminal penalties in Kansas for child endangerment. Fatal and near-fatal cases involving children across Kansas have stuck with him “because warning signs were missed, oversight failed or the law lacked the ...
LAWRENCE — A pair of Democrats from Lawrence with personal grievances about the Trump administration are challenging incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann for his 1st District seat. Lauren Reinhold, a longtime federal employee at the Social Security Administration, was swept up in Elon ...
Five Lawrence-based organizations that assist crime victims were awarded with a total of just over $336,000 in federal funding grants by Gov. Laura Kelly. Gov. Kelly announced in a press release Wednesday the awarding of a total of around $10.4 million in federal Victims of Crime Act grant ...
As the state has imposed new restrictions on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at universities, some supporters of DEI efforts perhaps have wondered whether the state is really in a position to enforce such bans. On Tuesday, such wonderers got their strongest sign yet that state ...
If the beginning of the new year is that dreaded time where you start listing all your home’s needed maintenance projects, the state’s higher education leaders can offer you a bit of solace. At least you have a home rather than a university. Leaders at the University of Kansas and the ...