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Welcome to the organ donation waiting game. Plenty of hard truths and high hopes await.

By Andy Obermueller - October 3, 2023

Kansas lawmakers clash with education group over state assessment scores

By Rachel Mipro - October 2, 2023

Kansas AG says law puts premium on election recounts tied to paper ballots, hand tabulation

By Tim Carpenter - October 2, 2023

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Next battle in Congress over Ukraine aid, as Biden presses House speaker for vote

BY Jennifer Shutt - October 2, 2023

United WE breaks down cost of Kansas gender inequality in new status report

BY Katelynn Donnelly - October 2, 2023

Student debt relief scams on the rise. Here’s what borrowers need to know.

BY Casey Quinlan - October 1, 2023

Congress clears bill to avert shutdown, with vote promised later on Ukraine aid

BY Jennifer Shutt - September 30, 2023

Kansas Press Association considers AG’s opinion a threat to government transparency

BY Tim Carpenter - September 30, 2023

Women workers could bear economic brunt as federal child care funding ends

BY Casey Quinlan - September 30, 2023

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Kansas, U.S. dread a Trump-Biden rematch. Lincoln Project co-founder says we should face reality.

BY Clay Wirestone - October 2, 2023

Kansas prisons censor mail from this Topeka ministry. It’s a literal witch hunt.

BY Max McCoy - October 1, 2023

Taylor Swift and the end of the Hollywood writers strike — a tale of two media narratives

BY Aarushi Bhandari - September 30, 2023

Private practitioners cast aside as funding for struggling families favors large agencies

BY Tara Wallace - September 29, 2023

Kansas collects $7M from $1.85B in sports bets in first year of legalized gambling

BY Rachel Mipro - September 29, 2023

Mental health advocates ask for legislative policy that treats unhoused Kansans with respect

BY Rachel Mipro - September 26, 2023

Topeka Rep. Fred Patton submits letter of resignation, stepping down Oct. 16

BY Tim Carpenter - September 25, 2023

Marshall expresses irritation with possible change to temporary visa program for farm workers

BY Tim Carpenter - September 19, 2023

Kansas Reflector Podcast

During the 2020 campaign, a supporter of President Donald Trump talks to a supporter of former Vice President Joe Biden before a Biden campaign rally in March at at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. (Kyle Rivas/Getty Images)

Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson on the 2024 race and abortion politics

Hosted BY: Clay Wirestone - October 2, 2023

Miami County Commissioner Rob Roberts, left, and Bruce Chladny, executive director of the Kansas Association of Counties, appear for a Sept. 22, 2023, recording of the Kansas Reflector podcast

Kansas counties rebuff GOP lawmakers’ opposition to property tax relief fund

Hosted BY: Sherman Smith - September 25, 2023

Shannon Little, the chapter co-lead for Kansas Moms Demand Action, and organization volunteer Ann Williamson talk about gun safety during a Sept. 13, 2023, recording of the Kansas Reflector podcast

Gun safety advocates push for changes in Kansas law

Hosted BY: Rachel Mipro - September 18, 2023

Mark McCormick details his Quindaro report during an Sept. 8, 2023 Kansas Reflector podcast. (Rachel Mipro/Kansas Reflector)

‘Quindaro, the vision’: Kansas ACLU spokesman talks historic site as blueprint for future

Hosted BY: Rachel Mipro - September 11, 2023

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U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy takes questions from reporters Sept. 29, 2023, at the U.S. Capitol.

Government shutdown nears: U.S. House GOP fails to pass one-month spending plan

By Jennifer Shutt, Jacob Fischler, Ariana Figueroa and Ashley Murray - September 29, 2023

Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Meeting On Pending Nominations

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California dies at 90

By Ariana Figueroa - September 29, 2023

Former Rep. Keith Esau requested the Kansas Legislature repeal a 2017 state law, which he previously championed, allowing advance ballots arriving by U.S. mail up to three days after Election Day to be counted. Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed such a bill earlier this year. (Kansas Reflector screen capture from Kansas Legislature's YouTube channel)

Former representative seeks end of Kansas 3-day grace period for accepting mailed advance ballots

By Tim Carpenter - September 29, 2023

A flock of green-winged teal settle on the marsh at Quivira National Wildlife Refuge.

Pipeline spills oil into Kansas creek near Quivira National Wildlife Refuge

By Allison Kite - September 29, 2023

Republicans will show evidence of how President Joe Biden “abused his public office for his family’s financial gain.”

GOP witnesses at Biden impeachment hearing see insufficient evidence of wrongdoing so far

By Ariana Figueroa - September 28, 2023

Sen. Mike Thompson, a Shawnee Republican, invited election deniers to spread fears about the integrity of Kansas elections during a two-day hearing

Voting rights advocates pan Kansas Republican’s ‘invite-only stage for election conspiracies’

By Sherman Smith - September 28, 2023

Stewart Whitson and Madeline Malisa, lobbyists with Opportunity Solutions Project and the Foundation for Government Accountability, urge the Kansas Legislature to unleash its authority and force Gov. Laura Kelly to disclose a document with details of a strategy for bringing Kansas into compliance with federal voter registration law

Think tank demands release of ‘secret’ Kansas voter registration deal. It was readily available.

By Tim Carpenter - September 28, 2023

A Phillips County jury awarded landowners $134,000 after a prominent Kansas hog producer illegally installed pipe on their property to transfer liquified waste from a confined-animal facility so it could be sprayed on fields from irrigation pivots. A judge hasn't set punitive damages against Terry Nelson and Julia Nelson of northcentral Kansas. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Kansas farmer loses appeal in bizarre trespass, nuisance case tied to disposal of hog effluent