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Plan Advances To Require In-Person K-12 Learning For Schoolyear
Rep. Valdenia Winn expressed her concerns with forcing K-12 educators to provide in-person learning for the remainder of the schoolyear.
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Wind Energy Advocates Argue Bill Pulls Plug On $14B Industry
Kansas Republican Sen. Mike Thompson, a climate change denier and green energy critic, chairs panel hearing bill.
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Senate Bill Would Ban KDHE From Requiring New Vaccines For Kids
Kansas Sen. Mark Steffen championed legislation prohibiting the state health secretary from requiring new immunizations for school children.
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Let’s Not Burn Down The Kansas Institutions That Made Us
Higher education in Kansas is under attack.
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Resolution To Expel Marjorie Taylor Greene
Dozens of U.S. House Democrats backed a resolution filed Friday to expel controversial U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress.
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Researcher Says Hostile Polices Impact Wellbeing of LGBTQ Youths
Megan Paceley, an associate prof. at the KU school of social welfare, found that states with hostile policies lead to worse mental health.
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More Than 55,000 Kansans Affected By Alzheimer’s
Black Americans are twice as likely as to have Alzheimer’s than white Americans, and Hispanic Americans one and a half times as likely.
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Creating Penalties For Infrastructure Damage Prompts Questions
A Kansas bill creating new crimes for damage of critical public or private infrastructure prompted inquiries for more stringent protection.
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CDC Says It’s OK For Students To Sit 3 Feet Apart In Classrooms
Federal health officials have revised their guidance to schools on how far apart students should be spaced in a classroom.
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Be Afraid, Kansas — Chivalrous Manhood Is Coming For You
The first time I ever heard an aggrieved white man assert that “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” it was 1982.
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Senator Wants Accountability For Funds From Unique License Plates
Measures allowing production of distinctive Kansas license plates have sparked conversation over where funds raised are spent.
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Senate Republican Wants Local Officials To ‘Feel Some Pain’
A Senate Republican expressed reservations about using federal aid to compensate businesses impacted by the pandemic.
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Senate Committee Spikes ‘Irresponsible’ $10 Million Grant Program
Cancer patient urges extension of telemedicine for out-of-state doctors.
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If Kansas Schools Return To ‘Normal,’ Then We’ve Learned Nothing
In the bureaucracy of education, there has been a frantic push to return to “normal” post COVID-19.
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Transgender Sports Ban Passed After ‘Incredibly Insulting’ Debate
Kansas Senate Republican asks if men have given their ‘man card to the snowflakes’.
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Gov. Kelly Denounces Kansas Senate’s Budget Plan As ‘Sabotage’
GOP using federal COVID-19 aid to cover state’s obligations to schools.
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Kansas Casinos Push For Control Over Legalized Sports Wagering
Kansas casino managers are pushing House legislators to pass the Senate-backed bill.
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This Wichita Senator Has A Message For The Kansas Legislature
Kansas Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau isn’t asking for much.
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Kansas Has Reached A Time For Celebration, Caution And A Lesson
Finally, some good news: vaccination against the coronavirus is gaining traction and cases in Shawnee County are going down.
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Children Of Kansan Exonerated Of Murder Plead For Judicial Reform
House bill sets new safeguards for jailhouse informant testimony.
