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Kansas Medical Marijuana Advocates Make Case For Legalization
On the first day of testimony, proponents championed the bill as a necessary step to address the opioid crisis.
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What Kansans Need To Know About The Pandemic Unemployment Rate
Here’s a pop quiz, Kansas: How long do you need to collect unemployment if your job is never coming back?
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Fraudsters Bilk Kansas Unemployment System For Up To $600M
Kansas Department of Labor disputes findings.
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Kansas Legislature’s Poison Narrative About Transgender Kids
The hurtful HB2210 would have made it a crime “for a doctor to perform gender reassignment surgery or hormone replacement therapy on minors.
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Bill Would Give Offenders A Way Out Of Public Registries
The Kansas Offenders Registration Act was implemented in 1993 to monitor convicted sex offenders after serving their sentence.
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Rolling Blackouts Helped Power Grid Avoid ‘Cascading Failures’
Much of Emporia, and Kansas, had shut down for three days, leaving residents struggling to understand the rolling blackouts.
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Kansas A.G., Republican Lawmakers Propose ‘Legislative Veto’
The so-called “legislative veto” would authorize the Legislature to repeal any regulation stemming from the governor’s agencies.
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Kansas Chamber To Torpedo State Board of Tax Appeal Nominee
Debate centers on ‘dark’ appraisal dispute, conflicts of interest.
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Kansas Transgender Sports Bill: Fair Play? Or, Discrimination?
Legislation reveals fissure on public K-12, university athletics policy.
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Kansas Senate Bill Forces All Students Back To School In March
KNEA, KASB wary of ending online-only option in pandemic.
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Kansas Legislators Consider Raising Minimum Age For Tobacco To 21
A Kansas Bill seeks to bring the state in line with federal regulations regarding minimum age for cigarettes and tobacco use.
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U.S. Sen. Moran To Make Certain Kansas Vets Get Shot At Vaccine
GOP senator dismayed someone used his name to seek jobless benefits.
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Added COVID Testing On Way With $1.6B From Biden Administration
The Biden administration is directing $1.6 billion to bolster COVID-19 testing nationally.
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In Our Winter Of Despair, Gov. Kelly Should Offer Kansans Hope
The bad news last Monday might have pushed many Kansans to the wall.
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Lawrence Activists Not Happy With D.A.’s Inaction on Murder Case
The new Douglas County district attorney is under fire by local activists.
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It’s Not Painful To Keep Talking About My Daughter’s Murder
Kansas Moms Demand Action held their first advocacy day in Topeka in 2016. There were just more than 10 people there. I was one of them.
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Kansas Rack Up $4M Bill in Defense of Baseless Voter Fraud Claim
The American Civil Liberties Union and other attorneys want to be repaid for their five-year legal battle.
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Coordinated Offensive Needed To Bring Veteran’s Home.
House, Senate bills call for $17.5M to draw federal aid to project.
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Former U.S. Sen. Dole To Undergo Treatment For Lung Cancer
U.S. Sen. Robert Dole, an icon of Kansas politics and Republican nominee for president, is preparing to initiate treatment for lung cancer.
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What History Suggests About Kansas Senators Who Acquitted Trump
Some white Americans might have been shocked that jurors voted to acquit, Black Americans experienced that sort of “justice” for a century.
