House and Senate budget committees will be back at the Statehouse on Wednesday, one day ahead of the start of a nine-day wrap-up session, to begin work on crafting a final, "omnibus" budget bill that will determine how the state spends the additional $534 million it now expects to receive ...
You might have the impression that all lawmakers have been doing is debating school finance, taxes and a few hot-button social issues like guns in schools. Make no mistake, those are huge issues for the state of Kansas and they deserve all the attention they've gotten. But it's worth ...
A consultant's report recommending Kansas add upward of $2 billion a year in K-12 education funding would be a huge benefit for the Lawrence school district. But the Eudora and Baldwin City school districts would not gain much, and under some scenarios they would even lose some ...
Greg Orman, an independent candidate for governor in 2018, has named Republican Sen. John Doll, of Garden City, as his lieutenant governor running mate. The announcement came in a news release issued around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday. Doll, 60, was part of the moderate Republican wave in the ...
As Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer prepares to take over as governor at 3 p.m. Wednesday, there is one question that seems to dominate almost every conversation in the hallways of the Statehouse: Who will be the next lieutenant governor? Under [Kansas law][1], Colyer will have authority to appoint the ...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office has removed information from its website about the business and financial holdings of public officials in response to concerns that the information could be used as a tool for identity theft. The information in question is contained in forms ...