John Wilson turned in his formal resignation from the Kansas House on Friday and announced that he is backing Lawrence and Douglas County sustainability director Eileen Horn as his successor. Wilson, a Democrat, has represented the 10th District since 2013. It covers a portion of Lawrence ...

With no fanfare, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach changed his official residence recently to his farm near Lecompton and registered to vote in Douglas County. Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew confirmed that Kobach changed his voter registration on March 8. He had previously been a ...

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas helped scuttle a Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare late Monday, but he said later Tuesday that he would support a repeal-only bill so that Congress could start fresh with open hearings on a replacement for the Affordable Care Act. Moran was one ...

After six and a half years of litigation and four previous trips to the Kansas Supreme Court, the long-running school finance case Gannon v. Kansas will come to another climax on Tuesday. That's when lawyers for the state and the plaintiff school districts go back to the Supreme Court to argue ...

Health care advocates in Kansas are turning up the pressure on the state's two U.S. senators to reject the latest version of a health care overhaul, even though one GOP senator, Pat Roberts, has already endorsed the plan. Fellow Republican Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas has not staked out a ...

Kansas has done a relatively decent job of balancing its revenues and expenses over the last 14 years, according to a new national study that rated all 50 states for their budget-balancing skills. The new [study from the Pew Charitable Trusts][1] shows that while the state ran a net positive ...