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Kansas moves to join Texas and other states in requiring porn sites to verify people’s ages
apnews.com Kansas moves to join Texas and other states in requiring porn sites to verify people's agesKansas is poised to require internet pornography sites to verify that visitors are adults. It would join Texas and a handful of other states despite concerns about privacy and how broadly the law could be applied.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is poised to require pornography websites to verify visitors are adults, a move that would follow Texas and a handful of other states despite concerns about privacy and how broadly the law could be applied.
- kansasreflector.com Statehouse scraps: GOP leaders' tax bill lavishes top 20% of Kansas earners with 70% of benefits - Kansas Reflector
The majestic halls of the Kansas Statehouse echoed this week with downright mendacious chatter about taxes.
- kansasreflector.com 'Historic tax relief': Kansas House advances flat tax plan to governor - Kansas Reflector
Republicans in the Kansas House of Representatives sent a sweeping flat tax plan to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.
- kansaspublicradio.org Expand Medicaid, fund schools: Kansas governor outlines goals in State of the State speech
Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly outlined her proposals on everything from taxes to child care in the annual address.
- kansasreflector.com Kansas school district that forced Native American boy to cut hair changes dress code policy - Kansas Reflector
A Girard dress code policy that led to the forced cutting of an 8-year-old Native American boy’s hair has been rescinded.
A Girard dress code policy that led to the forced cutting of an 8-year-old Native American boy’s hair has been rescinded.
- kansasreflector.com With boost from federal dollars, Kansas passenger train route set to become reality - Kansas Reflector
An influx of federal infrastructure dollars will allow Kansas cities to join a long-running train route between Oklahoma and Texas.
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Kansas Attorney General to appeal ruling blocking abortion rules, including a 24-hour waiting period
www.kmuw.org Kansas to appeal ruling blocking abortion rules, including a 24-hour waiting periodAttorney General Kris Kobach is appealing a state judge’s ruling that has blocked enforcement of multiple abortion restrictions.
- kansasreflector.com 'I'm not real proud': St. Marys public library gets new lease by removing LGBTQ books for kids - Kansas Reflector
The public library in the religion-dominated city of St. Marys has managed to hang onto its lease by the removal of LGBTQ books.
- kansasreflector.com Kansas officials downplayed involvement in Marion raid. Here's what they knew. - Kansas Reflector
Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody enlisted the support of local and state law enforcement officials in the days before he led raids on the local newspaper office, the publisher's home, and the home of a city councilwoman.
- www.kake.com Cleanup is done on a big Kansas oil spill on the Keystone system, the company and EPA say
The EPA said Kansas' environmental agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also will continue to inspect the area for the next five years or 'until it is determined that monitoring is no longer ne
- www.kmuw.org Kansas judge blocks 24-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions
The temporary injunction also puts state-mandated counseling and a new abortion pill 'reversal' law on hold.
- kansasreflector.com Legislative leaders spread biased tropes about disabled Kansans in crusade against Medicaid - Kansas Reflector
Senate President Ty Masterson and House Speaker Dan Hawkins oppose Medicaid expansion. Their deception is both a wildly inaccurate portrayal of uninsured Kansas who could benefit from Medicaid expansion.
- www.kmuw.org Most Kansans support expanding Medicaid, abortion rights, new survey finds
Nearly 55% of Republicans support expanding Medicaid, according to a new poll from Fort Hays State University.
- www.kmuw.org As aquifer levels decline in the Great Plains, states weigh the need to meter irrigation wells
About a quarter of the United States’s irrigated cropland sits on top of the Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains. But water levels are dropping, and states are taking different approaches to monitoring how much groundwater irrigators are pumping out.
- kansasreflector.com How a fake Keanu Reeves convinced a Kansas woman to abandon her dream of being president - Kansas Reflector
Joan Farr's presidential campaign hinged on support from the actor Keanu Reeves — but after $9,000 in Bitcoin transfers, she reached the conclusion that she had been scammed by a CIA poser.
- apnews.com The police chief who led a raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended
The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended. Marion Mayor Dave Mayfield on Saturday confirmed to The Associated Press that he suspended Chief Gideon Cody this week.
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Marshall to federal employees on brink of shutdown: ‘We all have to, you know, sacrifice’
With a federal shutdown looming as Congress appears unable to pass a temporary funding bill, hundreds of thousands of government employees are likely to start missing paychecks starting next week.
Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican, said Thursday it just comes with the job.
- kansasreflector.com Top Kansas Republicans push flat tax proposal, pan Medicaid expansion - Kansas Reflector
The top Republicans in the State Legislature announced they will resurrect a massive flat tax plan in the upcoming legislative session.
- www.kake.com Kansas faces shortfall of 34,000 college-educated workers through 2030
A new labor report revealed the current annual rate of degree and certificate completion at Kansas colleges and universities would be insufficient to meet anticipated growth in demand.
- www.kmuw.org A rural Kansas town returns invaluable pre-Columbian artifact to Peru: 'The right thing to do'
The artifacts were thought to be made between 200 B.C. and 200 A.D. and come from the Nazca region in Peru. They come from a collection that the Miami County Historical Society and Museum received five years ago from a Kansas City couple's trust.
- www.kmuw.org Kansas will no longer change trans people's birth certificates to reflect their gender identities
The state health department's says a new law prevents the state from legally recognizing those identities.
- www.kake.com KU grad turned NASA astronaut launches to space station
The crew on board includes NASA’s Loral O’Hara, a University of Kansas graduate and former research engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts
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Cities across Kansas to receive $22m for highway improvements
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Cities across Kansas will be receiving part of $22 million in funding to improve intersections and state highways as part of the Kansas Department of Transportation’s City Connecting Link Improvement Program (CCLIP).
- www.kmuw.org USDA invests nearly $50 million into water infrastructure in rural Kansas
Four towns and one county have received funding to upgrade their water and wastewater infrastructure, an urgent need across much of the rural U.S.
- www.kmuw.org Kansas police took Jeremy Sellhorn's car in 2020 and he can't get it back. He isn't alone
Police can take money, cars and other property from Kansans through a process called civil asset forfeiture. Police say it’s a tool that stops criminals. But opponents say law enforcement takes too much.
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Kansas farmers rushed to grow hemp when it became legal, but now they’re ditching it
lawrencekstimes.com Kansas farmers rushed to grow hemp when it became legal, but now they're ditching itFewer Kansas farmers are signing up to grow hemp each year, likely because of the diminishing demand for CBD oil. But hemp advocates say there are markets for hemp fiber and grains that could still be a boon for Kansas.
- www.kake.com Don't leave your cocaine at QuikTrip, Kansas police say
An eastern Kansas police department says a woman dropped her cocaine at a local QuikTrip after an officer arrived at the convenience store to grab some breakfast.
- www.kake.com 'Project Hope' aims to get people off the streets and into housing in Wichita
The city of Wichita's Project Hope program aims to reduce homelessness in the city's core downtown areas.
- www.kmuw.org M.T. Liggett Art Environment in Mullinville pulls in the curious
Some of artist M.T. Liggett’s work is preserved in a building for people who want to slow down for a better look. For decades, people zipping along U.S. 400 through Kiowa County have been treated to a vast display of strange metal sculptures as they passed by Mullinville.
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Large Kansas City employer T-Mobile plans to cut 5,000 jobs nationwide, CEO says
Cellular giant T-Mobile announced Thursday it intends to lay off around 7% of its U.S. workforce across the country, putting around 5,000 employees out of a job.
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Kansas submits five-year plan for high-speed internet
TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Office of Broadband Access and Deployment (BEAD) submitted its $451 million Five-Year Action Plan (FYAP) to expand high-speed internet access to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
- kansasreflector.com Altered evidence list indicates Marion police kept illegal copy of evidence from Kansas newspaper - Kansas Reflector
Police secretly copied one or more computers they seized from the Marion County Record and unlawfully failed to hand over the copy when they returned evidence last week, an attorney for the newspaper asserts.
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Democratic lawmakers announce legislation in wake of Marion newspaper raid
TOPEKA (KSNT) – A pair of Democratic state lawmakers want to see changes in the way search warrants are issued. This comes after the controversial raid of a Kansas newspaper and the home of its publisher.
- www.kake.com Sheriff is '100% certain' Dennis Rader is involved in 1976 disappearance of Oklahoma teen
A northeastern Oklahoma sheriff says he in 100% certain that Wichita-area serial killer Dennis Rader is involved in the disappearance of a 16-year-old girl in 1976.
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‘Reckless’: Marion vice-mayor speaks out about controversial police raid
Tempers flared Monday in the small town of Marion, Kansas, over the controversial raid of a city councilwoman, a local newspaper office, and its owner’s home.
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Judge allows transgender Kansans to intervene in gender marker lawsuit
TOPEKA (KSNT)— Shawnee County District Court Judge Teresa Watson has granted a motion for five transgender Kansans to intervene in a lawsuit over gender markers on driver’s licenses.
- kansasreflector.com ‘Ideological, partisan breakdown’: Proposed legislation reveals conflict among agriculturalists - Kansas Reflector
Rifts between family farmers and large agribusiness companies have expanded as debate over animal confinement legislation and a fairness in farming act hits new heights.
- www.kmuw.org University of Kansas released designs for a new $250 million football district. Here's a first look
University and Athletics officials said the new stadium and surrounding facilities, which they're calling the Gateway District, would transform campus and drive economic development in Lawrence. It's projected to open for the 2025 season.