Tag: Laura Kelly
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Despite legislative trick, Medicaid expansion unlikely in KS this year
Sen. Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, submitted a motion to move a House bill for Medicaid expansion out of committee…
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Toland nomination to Commerce Secretary off to rocky start
A second nominee of Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, David Toland, is under attack for social media postings. State senators questioned…
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Windfall tax bill SB 22 headed to Governor’s desk
Lawmakers adopted a bill that would allow taxpayers to keep the savings garnered by last year’s federal tax cuts. Under…
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House committee strips Medicaid expansion funding from budget proposal
The Kansas House Appropriations committee stripped $14 million from Gov. Laura Kelly’s proposed budget today. During a tense debate, a…
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Lawmakers, Governor Draw Battle Lines on KPERS Repayment
With unanimous consent in both the Kansas House and Senate, a bill that will repay $115 million to Kansas’s public…
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Full House To Debate KPERS Re-Amortization Plan
Update: The House voted against the re-amortization plan Thursday afternoon by a vote of 87-36. Members of the Kansas House…
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KS Senate Set To Repay $115M to KPERS
Kansas senators launched an opening salvo on the budget today, forwarding to final action a bill that would make a…
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Governor Kelly’s budget leads to large deficits
Senate Democrats objecting to returning the ‘federal windfall’ to taxpayers say doing so would produce a negative ending balance in…
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Kansas Sales Tax 8th Highest in the Nation
Kansas has the eighth highest state and local average sales tax rate, according to a new study from the Tax…
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Senate Republicans Prioritize Returning Trump Windfall to Taxpayers
Senate Republicans are poised to debate and pass legislation that would direct the Trump windfall back to Kansas taxpayers, but…
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Researchers Brutally Smack Down Laura Kelly’s Favored KU Welfare Report
The Wichita Eagle headline sounds awful: “Kansas child welfare agency trying to undercut research cited by incoming governor.” This is…
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Kansas House Majority Leader: State “Just Robbing” Taxpayers
Apparently no one told the new House Majority Leader, Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican, that a blue wave had transformed Kansas…
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Who Knew? Conservatives Gained Strength in Kansas, Elect Majority Leader
For all the self-congratulatory bluster coming out of the media this past month, who would have known that conservatives actually…
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Laura Kelly: “Little Getting Around A Need To Spend More”
To be fair to Kansas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Laura Kelly, “there’s little getting around a need to spend more” is…
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AP Slams Kelly for Claiming Kobach Called Schools “Overfunded”
When the Associated Press calls a claim in a Democratic ad false, as it did for a Laura Kelly ad…
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Shock Headline: “Kansas teachers union backs Democratic nominee for governor”
For some reason the Associated Press and the Kansas City Star thought it newsworthy that the National Education Association’s Kansas…
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Voter Suppression Alert: Dems Want Orman Off Guv Ballot on Technicality
Among the more prominent of their many pieties, Kansas Democrats would have Kansas citizens believe they lose sleep at night…
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KS Gov Candidate Fundraising Far Short 2014 Candidate Totals from Same Timeframe
Collectively, 2018 candidates for Kansas Governor have raised more than $6.3 million, but only one candidate’s cash on hand comes…
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Representative Mentions Weapon, Media Imagines Threat
A Kansas representative tweeted to another that there are 25 people carrying guns in the House Chambers prior to a vote,…
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KS Lawmakers, Former Govs Weigh in on Tax Negotiations
Kansas lawmakers are attempting to thread a needle on a tax proposal that will gain Gov. Brownback’s support or garner…