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Three weeks into the 2019 legislative session, the battle lines are becoming clear.Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is keeping a relatively low profile (for a…
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Segment 1: Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is asking for more than 300 new intake workers to address a backlog of applications to the state's Medicaid program.A…
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Lawmakers, lobbyists and citizens following the goings on in Topeka should buckle their seat belts.The 2019 legislative session is going to be a bumpy…
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Think of Laura Kelly as the fix-it governor.As in she needs to fix what, by most accounts, is a state government in desperate need of repair.For the first…
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Kansas Gov.-elect Laura Kelly insists the state budget she’s preparing can fully fund the state’s schools, expand Medicaid coverage to another 150,000…
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Not gonna hear itThe U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would not consider a case involving Planned Parenthood and the state of Kansas.That means Kansas…
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Leader talkThe newly elected and re-elected folks in the Kansas House got together on Monday to pick their leaders. Republicans, who hold an overwhelming…
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If elections have consequences, the top-of-the-ticket win for Democrats in Kansas likely carries no more obvious upshot than the probable expansion of…
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Aging out into problemsA new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation looking at what happens to older children in foster care shows Kansas roughly…
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Revving up revenuesRemember the tax cuts engineered by then-Gov. Sam Brownback? And recall how those tax cuts were followed, month after month and year…
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A Kansas law prohibiting drug-induced abortions via telemedicine is being challenged by a women’s health clinic in Wichita that provides abortions.Trust…
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Bucks from jocksThe University of Kansas is wrestling, as Stephen Koranda puts it, with a $20 million budget cut and whether its well-heeled athletic…