As the debate in the Kansas Statehouse continues over how to pay for tax cuts, a new report shows Kansans claim the home mortgage tax deduction at a slightly lower rate than the national average.
TOPEKA — Two days of talks aimed at settling a lawsuit that challenges Kansas’ school finance system were unsuccessful, attorneys for both sides said in a status report filed Wednesday with the state Supreme Court.
TOPEKA — Three federal judges on Tuesday ordered Kansas to cover $389,000 worth of attorneys’ fees and expenses for individuals involved in a lawsuit last year that stemmed from the Legislature’s inability to redraw political boundaries to ensure equal representation.
Conservative Republican state senators pushed back Thursday on Gov. Sam Brownback’s request that Kansas issue $202 million more in bonds to help finance a federal biosecurity lab in Manhattan.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas' attorney general is warning legislators that the state faces potential lawsuits and more than $1.2 million in costs because of laws enacted this year, including a pro-gun policy aimed at the federal government and a sweeping anti-abortion measure declaring that life begins “at fertilization.”
Fueled by a big marketing campaign to protect the home mortgage tax deduction, the Kansas Association of Realtors spent nearly $100,000 on lobbying in March, according to a new report by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told a Senate panel in Washington on Monday that a pending immigration reform bill could make life easier for terrorists like the alleged bombers of the Boston Marathon.
Gov. Sam Brownback called proposed cuts to higher-education funding “a momentum killer” Monday after meeting with Wichita State University officials in Wichita.
Bob Dole tries to go to work every day. On April 10, for this interview in his law firm office, he wore a crisp white shirt with a pen in his pocket and a blue necktie festooned with tiny American flags.
If lawmakers walk away this year without an agreement to bring new revenue into the state by extending a temporary sales tax hike and cutting the value of popular tax deductions, the state could quickly fall into deep financial trouble, according to an analysis of new budget projections.
State Senate President Susan Wagle told a Wichita Republican club Friday that she wants to push ahead with expanding charter schools in the state after the Supreme Court rules on a pending school-finance lawsuit.
And minority populations, especially Hispanics, are much more likely to not have health insurance coverage. The rate of uninsured Hispanic people, for example, is more than two and a half times that of non-Hispanic whites.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a bill into law declaring that the federal government has no power to regulate guns manufactured, sold and kept only in Kansas.
Kansas law enforcement officials and prosecutors will have a new way to take down gang kingpins who profit off of organized crime.
Calling drug addiction a “scourge in Kansas,” Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law Tuesday a bill to test welfare and unemployment recipients suspected of using illegal drugs.
Gov. Sam Brownback plans to begin a round of university visits – starting with Wichita State University on April 22 – to talk about protecting higher education from deep budget cuts proposed by the House and Senate.
Gov. Sam Brownback has vetoed a bill that would extend the life of a board that regulates home inspectors, but kept open the possibility he would consider a revised proposal.
The Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission is looking at how it can best grow the state’s creative section and economy. And it has scheduled a stop at Wichita’s Century II Performing Arts and Convention Center on April 20.
A coalition of women’s rights groups urged Gov. Sam Brownback on Tuesday to veto a series of anti-abortion bills that lawmakers approved in recent weeks.
Mike Fagg emerged from Monday’s vote canvass in Butler County as the winner of the mayor’s race in El Dorado, one of three close local races that ended unchanged from Election Day after county commissioners there and in Sedgwick County took another look.
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