It has been nearly 90 years since the state of Kansas elected a Democrat to the United States Senate. But for months, political experts have speculated that 2020 could be the year that streak ends — depending on how the Republican primary shakes out. Though more have filed, two leading ...
Former Baldwin City Council member A.J. Stevens, 49, says he wants to use his experience in local government to help out at the Statehouse. Stevens is one of three area Democrats running to replace 10th District Rep. Eileen Horn, D-Lawrence, who announced in April she would not seek another ...
Brandon Holland, son of Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, wants to make progress on Medicaid expansion, school funding and the state's recovery from COVID-19 if he's elected to the 10th District House seat. Holland, 31, of Baldwin City, was the first candidate to file in the race and has ...
Updated at 8:20 p.m. Friday TOPEKA — Kansas’ Republican-controlled state school board is facing pressure from conservatives to scuttle Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s plan to delay the reopening of K-12 schools, even as a resurgence in coronavirus cases intensifies. The elected, 10-member ...
A nominee for the Kansas Court of Appeals who was rejected by the Kansas Senate last month has been nominated again — this time to replace Kansas Court of Appeals Judge Steve Leben, who is retiring. The Court of Appeals Nominating Commission on Friday announced its three nominees to fill ...
LAWRENCE — As an inmate at the Wichita Work Release Facility with only a few months left on his sentence, Timothy Lesher enjoyed freedoms that many in prison don’t. He was a line cook at a Wichita restaurant and bought saline solution from Walmart to clean his CPAP machine, which helps him ...