Baldwin City Mayor Casey Simoneau, Pottawatomie County Commissioner Dee McKee and Atchison County Commmissioner Casey Quinn, left to right, lauded the Kansas Department of Transportation's cost-share program delivering state funding for infrastructure safety improvements. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)

KDOT awards $12 million to city, county transportation projects via cost-share initiative

By - November 28, 2023

Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Marla Luckert, delivering a speech to the Legislature in January, says information systems compromised in an October cyberattack would start to be restored in December. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

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Gov. Laura Kelly says her administration will pull the plug on a widely panned license plate design that was revealed last week.

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Gov. Laura Kelly touted a new design for Kansas license plates saturated in wheat-colored yellow and announced the plan for eradicating older. peeling embossed tags during 2024. (Kansas Reflector screen capture from Kansas Department of Revenue image)

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Rev. Bobby Love Sr., left, senior pastor of Second Baptist Church of Olathe, and Monsignor Stuart Swetland, president of the private Donnelly College in Kansas City, Kansas, and pastor of Our Lady and Saint Rose Catholic Church, urged the Kansas Legislature to deliver health care services to about 150,000 working poor in Kansas by expanding eligiblity for Medicaid. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)

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