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As Kansans celebrate equality, House lawmakers vote against transgender women’s rights

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Report: Kansas foster care placement instability driven by older youths with high levels of need

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Gov. Laura Kelly signs four bills, including tweak to first-time homebuyer savings program

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Gun violence is a proxy war on the American public

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Kansas Legislature stumbles down the path of maximum dysfunction. Leaders like it that way.

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Kansas House passes proposal for independent child advocate to oversee foster care system

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DCF secretary says better community support could keep more kids out of Kansas foster care system

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House lawmakers advance proposal to study Kansas legislative salaries, potentially increase pay

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How the Kansas Legislature responded to last year’s abortion vote

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Brian Jordan, executive director of the Kansas Association of School Boards, appears for a March 3, 2023, podcast recording at the Kansas Reflector office in Topeka

Engaged Kansas coalition encourages local public service

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Kansas senator, advocate talk medical marijuana

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Kansas State University president Richard Linton, a true believer in the land-grant mission of public universities, said a cadre of new campus buildings should expand relationships with students, researchers and businesses in the state. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)

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Sen. Mike Thompson, R-Shawnee, convinced a bipartisan majority in the Kansas Senate to support a bill authorizing a March 2024 presidential preference primary in Kansas. The state's two major parties have generally relied on the caucus system since the 1980s. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

Proposal for 2024 presidential primary in Kansas draws bipartisan support in Senate

By - March 30, 2023

Kansas Republican asserts ‘God-given’ gun rights during debate on concealed carry fees

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Experts see economic problems for U.S. as struggle over debt limit, spending cuts extends

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U.S. Senate in bipartisan vote repeals decades-old Iraq war authorizations

By - March 29, 2023

Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, D-Wichita, said she was mystified a Kansas Senate committee endorsed a bill withholding food stamps from parents not making child support payments. The House-passed bill was rejected 20-20 by the Senate. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

Kansas Senate defeats bill leveraging food stamp access to generate child support payments

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Kansas House passes bills dealing with flat tax, abortion, wind turbines, energy, fentanyl

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Sen. Kristen O'Shea, R-Topeka, sought to save a bill unanimously adopted by the Kansas House to address the crisis of opioid overdose deaths in Kansas, but she fell short amid opposition from other GOP senators. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)

Senate clashes over gutting of Kansas overdose fatality bill unanimously passed by House

By - March 29, 2023

Senate Minority Leader Dinah Sykes, D-Lenexa, proposed gun instruction for K-12 public school students through Everytown for Gun Safety rather than the National Rifle Association. The Senate GOP rejected the proposal. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

Senate Democrat rebuffed for trying to blend NRA, Everytown visions of firearm safety

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Kansas House advances ‘state-mandated deception’ of abortion pill reversal

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