Stephen Koranda
Managing Editor, Kansas News ServiceAs the Kansas News Service managing editor, I help our statewide team of reporters find the important issues and breaking news that impact people statewide. We refine our daily stories to illustrate the issues and events that affect the health, well-being and economic stability of the people of Kansas.
I spent almost 15 years reporting on government and state legislatures in Mississippi and Kansas before becoming the Kansas News Service daily news editor in 2021. I was on the air in Kansas for a dozen years as the Kansas Public Radio Statehouse reporter.
Now I'm using that experience to help Kansas News Service reporters develop and refine their stories as they cover topics that impact the people of Kansas.
I'm a native of the Midwest with a degree from the University of Iowa. Email me at skoranda@kcur.org.
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County officials say they can't afford to refund property taxes and that property owners weren't always the ones who suffered losses during the pandemic. Some business owners argue the counties owe them a rebate for the damage to their revenues.
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The Kansas Legislature has approved a constitutional that voters will now decide on. It comes in response to a Kansas Supreme Court ruling and would declare the state constitution does not protect abortion rights.
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The Democratic Governor and conservative Republicans who control the Legislature don't agree on any of the key issues, and they're all rushing to do something while the possibility of a COVID-19 shutdown lingers.
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The governor's State of the State speech called for bipartisanship, cooperation in fighting the pandemic and, less realistically, expansion of Medicaid.
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State and local governments were told they had to spend the money quickly, and couldn't necessarily spend it on things they already had on their wish lists.
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Conservative Republicans continue to control the Kansas Legislature, setting up a rough road for Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.
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Melissa Taylor Standridge was opposed by anti-abortion groups because she sided with a court ruling that said the state constitution included a right to the procedure.
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Going into the 2021 legislative session, Kansas GOP lawmakers have 87 of 125 House seats and 29 of 40 Senate seats.
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More than 800,000 Kansans voted early in the 2020 general election.
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The Kansas Department of Labor has blocked more than 100,000 fraudulent claims during the pandemic.