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2 days ago · Kansas legislators question effectiveness of TIF districts. Kansas Reflector is a nonprofit news operation providing in-depth reporting, diverse opinions and daily coverage of state government and politics. This public service is free to readers and other news outlets.
About 1,500 Kansas students change school districts under new …
4 hours ago · TOPEKA — Kansas school districts showed caution in allowing transfers through a new open enrollment option that lets students attend school outside their home district, data presented Wednesday to the Kansas State Board of Education showed. About 1,500 students transferred out of their home ...
Hang onto your hats: 20 quick takes from the 2024 presidential …
3 days ago · Republicans won big in Kansas. Their expanded legislative supermajority means that the GOP can more easily override Kelly. Leaders have mentioned revamping the budget process, along with new corporate tax cuts.Given enthusiasm in past years for school vouchers and anti-trans bills, expect both issues to return come January.
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4 days ago · Election Day 2024 offers a stark warning for Kansans: Beware the vibes. BY: Clay Wirestone - November 6, 2024. Vibes aren’t enough. From my perspective on election night at 10 here in Kansas, that’s the takeaway from a day of voting that didn’t produce much in the way of thundering progressive results in Kansas — or anywhere else, really.
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3 days ago · BY: Jacob Fischler - November 8, 2024. Special counsel Jack Smith, the prosecutor in the federal criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump, asked a D.C. federal judge on Friday to suspend deadlines in the election interference case that centered on Trump’s supporters’ Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Kansans support marijuana legalization, but lawmakers won’t bite
Nov 1, 2024 · TOPEKA — A wide majority of Kansans support legalizing medical and recreational marijuana, but a group of legislators assigned to weigh medical marijuana legalization declined to push the issue in the 2025 session. About 73% of respondents to the Kansas Speaks survey either strongly or somewhat supported the legalization of medical marijuana ...
Kansas House speaker says Legislature's budget takeover could …
Oct 3, 2024 · TOPEKA — Lawmakers’ plans to take control of the state’s budget-writing process could be rocky upon rollout, Republican leadership warned Wednesday as outside groups weighed in. The new approach positions the Legislature as the state’s chief budget authority and, if successful, would mean a budget is proposed as a bill on the first day ...
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ABOUT US. Kansas Reflector is a nonprofit news operation providing in-depth reporting, diverse opinions and daily coverage of state government and politics. This public service is free to readers and other news outlets. Through its opinion section, Kansas Reflector works to amplify voices of people whose lives are affected by public policies ...
Kansas Reflector’s 10 most read stories of 2021
Dec 31, 2021 · Read the story. 7. Kansas man who ran for Topeka City Council appears in video of fatal shooting at U.S. Capitol. Read the story. 8. Four Kansas hospitals fail to meet new federal standard for cost transparency. Read the story. 9. Lawrence chiropractor censured, fined $4,000 for flawed COVID-19 advertising.
Take a look at these six hot topics from Kansas’ 2021, with opinion ...
Jan 3, 2022 · For our special, year-end edition of the Kansas Reflector podcast, editor in chief Sherman Smith invited senior reporter Tim Carpenter and myself to discuss six big topics from 2021. To accompany that podcast, I looked through the opinion section archives for columns tackling those subjects. Some of these pieces echo our exchanges, while others take […]