TOPEKA — Republican lawmakers moved ahead Thursday with trying to end a three-day grace period for Kansas voters to mail in their ballots, advancing a measure that one voting rights activist called “madness.” A GOP-dominated state Senate committee approved a bill that would require all ...
TOPEKA — Kansas State Treasurer Lynn Rogers recommended the state’s public pension system respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by divesting a $35.9 million investment in Russian securities. Rogers, who serves on the nine-member Kansas Public Employees Retirement System board, said ...
TOPEKA — Conservative Republicans' frustrations over how Kansas handled the coronavirus pandemic are complicating Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's efforts to keep her top public health administrator in place. The state Senate health committee made no recommendation Thursday on whether Janet ...
TOPEKA — The Republican-controlled Kansas Senate on Wednesday confirmed three people appointed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to the state board that oversees higher education, despite opposition from some GOP conservatives to two of them. Former state Sen. Wint Winter Jr., of Lawrence; ...
TOPEKA — Kansas collected half a billion dollars in taxes during February, which was nearly $19 million above the bullish estimates that were revised three months ago to reflect revenue growth. The Kansas Department of Revenue said the state collected $502.5 million in taxes last month — ...
TOPEKA — Powerful Kansas agriculture groups on Tuesday blocked a bipartisan proposal to tie a big increase in funding for water conservation programs to a reorganization of state and local agencies that regulate water use. The House Water Committee considered changes that would have made the ...