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Senate Tax Committee mulls limit on taxable assessed valuation increases
The Kansas Legislature is again taking up a bill this year that would put a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would limit taxable assessed valuation increases to 3% per year on real estate[…]
Kansas DCF officials won’t comment on how they’ll prevent a child care scandal as discovered in Minnesota
With the child care fraud scandal engulfing Minnesota, we asked officials in the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) how to prevent similar wrongdoing in the state. Although largely funded by the federal government,[…]
Chiefs’ stadium deal appears to violate 2019 Kelly executive order
Governor Laura Kelly’s administration is refusing to answer questions about whether it violated Kelly’s 2019 executive order barring across-state-line incentive competition with Missouri when luring the Kansas City Chiefs to Wyandotte County. Prior to 2019,[…]
Kansas Association of Realtors (KAR) representative responds to Sentinel story about assessment limits
Last year, the Kansas Association of Realtors (KAR) lobbied against an assessment limit — a constitutional amendment to cap assessed value increases. As the Sentinel recently reported, many individual realtors supported the amendment — and[…]