A past president of the state NAACP has filed to run for Kansas insurance commissioner. Nathaniel McLaughlin, of Kansas City, Kan., headed the statewide civil rights group from 2011 until 2015. He is a retired executive of Sodexo Healthcare Services, an international management company that ...
Republican gubernatorial candidate and current Kansas Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer announced Monday that he has chosen Goodland businesswoman Jenifer Sanderson as his lieutenant governor running mate. Sanderson is the owner of a Sonic Drive-In franchise in Goodland and is a past chair of ...
House Minority Leader Jim Ward’s exit from the 2018 race for governor in Kansas came as a surprise to some observers, but not much of a surprise to those who were paying close attention to fundraising numbers. Ward, a Wichita Democrat, had raised less than $100,000 at year’s end in 2017 ...
Two specific kinds of corporate tax breaks, the size of which officials can't even estimate yet, are at the center of bargaining between the Kansas House and Senate that threatens to push the Legislature right up to its deadline Friday night. Those tax breaks are part of an effort by ...
The Kansas House on Thursday declined to go along with a Senate-passed tax bill that would cut state income taxes for most people, with Republican leaders saying there is still too little information available about what it would do to state revenues and the budget. The [Senate Substitute ...
Kansas lawmakers were told Wednesday that fixing an $80 million problem in the recently-passed school finance bill may be easier than many first assumed. During a joint meeting of the House and Senate budget committees, staff from the Legislative Research Department said lawmakers do not ...