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HELENVILLE, Wis. (AP) Bill Brasch greeted President Donald Trumps latest tweet controversy with a shrug. He doesnt believe Trump was being racist for telling four congresswomen, all women of color, to go back to…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Wednesday to make it easier to protest inside the Kansas Statehouse, as some members of the Republican-controlled Legislature worry that liberal demonstrators…
Kansas voters who threw far-right Republicans out of office in 2016 and elected Laura Kelly as governor in 2018 should be pleased that state finance is on the mend after facing bankruptcy three short years…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Top Republican legislators on Wednesday blocked nearly $10 million that Kansas corrections officials argue they need to deal with prison overcrowding and said lawmakers might reject Democratic Gov. Laura Kellys choice…
WASHINGTON The House passed a $19.2 billion disaster aid package to help victims of recent storms and flooding rebuild, with the price tag growing by about $1.8 billion on the floor through amendments to…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas lawmakers who support expanding Medicaid blocked passage of the next state budget Friday in a high-stakes standoff designed to force the Legislatures conservative Republican leaders to allow an expansion plan…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and top Republican legislators met Wednesday to try to break a stalemate on expanding Medicaid in Kansas, only to fail after she demanded that lawmakers approve a…
WASHINGTON Three-quarters of the public including a majority of Republicans want the federal government to protect patients from being stuck with surprise medical invoices after they are unwittingly treated by doctors or…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) As an election supervisor and poll worker for more than 20 years, Robert Bailey routinely mailed in his ballot early, confident that voting problems elsewhere that he read about would have…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Top Republican lawmakers in Kansas struggled Wednesday to find enough GOP votes to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kellys veto of a tax relief bill despite a strong push to save the…
