Kansas
- kansasreflector.com Judge who authorized Kansas newspaper raid escapes discipline with secret conflicting explanation • Kansas Reflector
Laura Viar, the magistrate who authorized last year’s police raid on the Marion County Record, escaped discipline from a state panel with contradictory claims.
Another sign of a broken system...
- kansasreflector.com Whatever you call the encroaching political darkness in Kansas and America, it's not democracy • Kansas Reflector
There is no precedent. Whatever its name — dictatorship, fascism, autocracy, theocracy — this is not democracy.
A call to action, to be sure.
- kansasreflector.com Kansas AG Kris Kobach accuses Pfizer of misleading vaccine marketing in lawsuit • Kansas Reflector
Attorney General Kris Kobach files a civil lawsuit against Pfizer, alleging deceptive marketing of its COVID-19 vaccine and violating Kansas's Consumer Protection Act.
What a total waste of tax money...
- www.kake.com Some Wichita churches stand with the LGBTQ+ community as allies during Pride Month
June is Pride Month, and some houses of worship, and faith leaders stand as allies to the LGBTQ+ Community.
- www.kake.com Thousands attend Kansas Pride event at state fairgrounds
A two-day celebration of diversity, acceptance, life and love - Kansas Pride.
Makes you very happy to see this!
- www.hutchnews.com Hutchinson-based company purportedly had white supremacist message on their vehicles
Hutchinson man purportedly displays racist group on his work vehicle
Absolutely ridiculous... > A work vehicle bearing the saying that supports a white supremacist group was spotted in Hutchinson and reported to social media.
> The slogan, according to the ADL, was coined by David Lane, a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order.
- apnews.com A Kansas paper and its publisher are suing over police raids. They say damages exceed $10M
A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher have filed a federal lawsuit over police raids last summer of its offices and the publisher’s home.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13826334
> A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher filed a federal lawsuit Monday over police raids last summer of its offices and the publisher’s home, accusing local officials of trying to silence the paper and causing the death of the publisher’s 98-year-old mother. > > The lawsuit did not include a specific figure for potential damages. However, in a separate notice to local officials, the paper and its publisher said they believe they are due more than $10 million. > > The lawsuit from the Marion County Record’s parent company and Eric Meyer, its editor and publisher, accuses the city of Marion, the Marion County Commission and five current and former local officials of violating free press rights and the right to be free from unreasonable law enforcement searches guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit also notified the defendants that Meyer and the newspaper plan to add other claims, including that officials wrongly caused the death of Meyer’s mother the day after the raids, which the lawsuit attributes to a stress-induced heart attack.
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When Kansas House lobbyists ask for new laws, their names go on bills
Glad to see Kansas doing this and trying to bring some transparency back to the statehouse!
- kansasreflector.com Former Marion police chief had ‘pizza party’ after raid, turned off body cam, new lawsuit says - Kansas Reflector
Record reporter Phyllis Zorn filed a federal lawsuit in the Marion County Raid, releasing new details on the infamous seizure.
Crooked cop couldn't remember the Miranda Rights and threw a pizza party to celebrate... This story gets worse with every new revelation.
- hayspost.com Kobach, coalition demand Biden drop EPA lead pipe rule; Hays survey underway
Photo by Pixabay By CRISTINA JANNEYHays PostKansas Attorney General Kr
Suggesting that lead paint in water is of trivial importance is cartoonishly evil
- www.usatoday.com They hoped solar panels would secure the future of their farm. Then their neighbors found out
The reasons for local opposition vary. The motives behind them can be murky. But they often boil down to one idea: Renewables are fine, but we don’t want them here.
Unfortunately, the oil-funded NIMBY scourge continues...
- kansasreflector.com Agriculture built these High Plains towns. Now, it might run them dry - Kansas Reflector
This story, the first in an occasional series about water challenges facing the American heartland, is a partnership between Stateline and the Kansas Reflector. MOSCOW, Kansas — Brownie Wilson pulls off a remote dirt road right through a steep ditch and onto a farmer’s field. He hops out of his whit...
At this point, we really ought to be shouting about this from every rooftop in the country.
- kansasreflector.com Kansas GOP leaders: House — not Senate — possesses votes to override Kelly's tax veto - Kansas Reflector
Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins and Senate President Ty Masterson urged Kansans to rally behind the GOP's tax bill vetoed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.
The ghouls are back at it again with the flat tax proposal. Infuriating that they keep bringing this up; Laura Kelly and the handful of reasonable Republicans need to stand their ground. Please contact your state senators and representatives today!
- kansasreflector.com Full transcript of Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly's 2024 State of the State speech - Kansas Reflector
And, while achieving excellence is hard…sustaining that excellence is even harder. Yet that’s exactly what we’ve done, together.
I really like Laura Kelly's takes here; glad to see that the looming water crisis, education crisis, and rural hospital shutdowns are taking center stage in her budget. Hopefully the Republicans are willing to support these measures as well, and even better if they drop the idiotic flat-tax proposal and school vouchers proposal they put forward perennially at this point...
- kansasreflector.com Moran: New U.S. Farm Bill must address drought worsened by changes in climate - Kansas Reflector
Kansas Republican U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran says the new Farm Bill must include investment in water programs responsive to climate changes worsening drought.
Always interesting how some aspects of global heating go acknowledged by republicans while others do not...
see also: https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/senators-own-up-to-1-2-million-in-big-oil-stocks/
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On the windswept plains of southwest Kansas, loneliness and isolation confirm policy failures
kansasreflector.com On the windswept plains of southwest Kansas, loneliness and isolation confirm policy failures - Kansas ReflectorI’m saying goodbye to another set of friends who are leaving Dodge City and moving on to greener pastures outside of Kansas.
- kansasreflector.com Kansas governor slams brakes on new license plate: 'I've heard you loud and clear' - Kansas Reflector
Gov. Laura Kelly said Tuesday she would halt production of a widely panned new license plate and return to the drawing table.
Good to see a responsive governor willing to take ownership for things under her watch! Wish more politicians would grow to be even half the person Laura Kelly is
- kansasreflector.com Kansas political moderates create educational nonprofit to put spotlight on 2024 elections - Kansas Reflector
A new Kansas political education organization, Kansans First, formed to share information on moderate policy and candidates during the 2024 election cycle.
Will be interesting to see if Laura Kelly and Steve Morris can bring Kansas to moderate positions.
