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Kansas prisons spend almost four times as much on overtime pay as they did six years ago. The state paid out more than $8.2 million on overtime in fiscal…
Worse in KansasThe foster care load in Kansas is growing faster than the rest of the country. Madeline Fox analyzed fresh national numbers on trends in…
In voting for a $1.2 billion tax increase to bolster the budget for the next two years, the Kansas Legislature avoided a projected $900 budget hole and…
Costs to secure four state-run hospitals under Kansas’ concealed carry law could run close to $12 million annually, with an additional $1 million needed…
The leader of the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services wants the state’s two psychiatric hospitals to be exempt from a concealed carry law…
The troubled Larned State Hospital has a new superintendent.Veteran state attorney Bill Rein has been named to head the facility, which provides inpatient…
The head of the legal department at Larned State Hospital will be transferred to Topeka later this month, a move that has some western Kansas attorneys…
While the Kansas Legislature’s final budget bill did increase spending on mental health hospitals by $17 million, more than two-thirds of that funding…
Legislative budget negotiators have agreed to insert a provision in the state budget preventing Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration from consolidating…