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TOPEKA — The state will have to cut at least $258.8 million to balance the current budget by the end of the fiscal year, revenue estimators said Thursday.
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson is suggesting that critics who think his administration isn't trying hard enough to lure thousands of jobs away from Missouri are pushing him to be fiscally irresponsible.
TOPEKA — Kansas is "very close" to being forced to consider raising taxes to deal with budget problems, Gov. Mark Parkinson said Friday.
The giant bucket of a front-end loader fell heavily on a dozen gambling machines Friday, smashing them to bits before a row of television cameras.
TOPEKA — The NAACP's Kansas chapter demanded Thursday that a state legislator remove his "RedNeck Rap" from the Internet and publicly apologize for the video criticizing President Obama.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —The Kansas secretary of commerce plans to cross state lines to lead economic development efforts in Missouri, which is prompting some Kansas legislators to question his loyalties in a key business-recruiting effort.
In a pre-emptive strike on national health care, conservative state lawmakers and representatives of the "tea party" movement on Tuesday proposed changing the state Constitution to exempt Kansas from federal health insurance mandates.
TOPEKA — New students in Kansas' public schools and declining property values have punched what could become a $70 million hole in the state's already shaky budget, a top education official confirmed Friday.
TOPEKA — Legislators have initiated their own audit of Kansas' corrections system because of allegations of widespread sex between staff members and inmates at the state's women's prison.
TOPEKA — Looming cuts to this year's budget and less money for the next year could translate into fewer meals for seniors, larger class sizes in public schools and deeper cuts to state programs which have already go through several reductions.
Kansas would not have a budget crisis if the state Legislature had been less generous with tax cuts and exemptions, according to figures presented Friday by Secretary of Revenue Joan Wagnon.
TOPEKA — The Kansas revenue department said Monday that the state collected $6.9 million more in taxes than had been expected for August.
