Tim Carpenter

Tim Carpenter
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Tim Carpenter has reported on Kansas for 35 years. He covered the Capitol for 16 years at the Topeka Capital-Journal and previously worked for the Lawrence Journal-World and United Press International. He has been recognized for investigative reporting on Kansas government and politics. He won the Kansas Press Association's Victor Murdock Award six times. The William Allen White Foundation honored him four times with its Burton Marvin News Enterprise Award. The Kansas City Press Club twice presented him its Journalist of the Year Award and more recently its Lifetime Achievement Award. He earned an agriculture degree at Kansas State University and grew up on a small dairy and beef cattle farm in Missouri. He is an amateur woodworker and drives Studebaker cars.
District Court Judge William Cullins, lower right of frame, is accused of creating a hostile work environment at the Montgomery County Courthouse with cursing and racist and sexist remarks and has asked the Kansas Supreme Court for leniency in his disciplinary case. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)
Courts and Crime

Judge accused of bigotry, racism in disciplinary case seeks mercy from...

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Kansas House candidate Charles Smith's campaign finance report includes payment of nearly $5,000 to a Catholic church in Pittsburg for postage costs of campaign mailers, a collaboration that may not be against state law but could run afoul of Internal Revenue Service rules for nonprofit churches. (Submitted/Kansas Reflector)
Election 2020

Kansas House candidate’s financial link to Pittsburg church raises legal question

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Gov. Laura Kelly and legislators on the State Finance Council agreed Thursday in a virtual meeting to increase spending on COVID-19 testing to $80 million and earmark an additional $15 million for testing depending on demand statewide. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
COVID-19

Kelly, Kansas legislators earmark up to $95 million for COVID-19 testing

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The campaign of Democratic U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, left, said a state tax warrant seeking $1,300 issued to Sharice for Congress resulted from confusion about the tax payment schedule and was resolved without making the requested payment to the Kansas Department of Revenue. She faces Republican challenger Amanda Adkins in Tuesday's election. (Kansas Reflector)
Business

Davids’ campaign resolves confusion over tax warrant

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Shawnee County Sheriff's Office reports say a middle-of-the-night brawl sent to the hospital one of two women guests at the Topeka home of a Kansas lobbyist who declined to tell a deputy and detective investigating allegations of battery and prostitution how he knew the women. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)
Courts and Crime

Prominent Kansas lobbyist’s house scene of mysterious late-night brawl between female...

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GOP 2nd District Republican Jake LaTurner again fails to substantiate claim Democratic candidate Michelle De La Isla "defunded" Topeka Police Department while serving on the city council and as mayor. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)
Courts and Crime

LaTurner renews suspect claim Democratic opponent strives to ‘defund’ police

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Charlie Cook, of the Cook Political Report, says Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appears to be closing in on victory against President Donald Trump. He spoke during an online event with the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)
Election 2020

Political prognosticator Charlie Cook puts money on Biden, GOP on verge...

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U.S. Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran joined Republican colleagues to affirm 52-48 the nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett to a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. (Submitted/Kansas Reflector)
Courts and Crime

Moran, Roberts join GOP brethren to affirm Supreme Court nominee

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Law enforcement supporters and Black Lives Matter activists converged outside Topeka's city hall during August. Fort Hays State University's statewide survey shows 49% of Kansans believe Black Lives Matter sharpened the racial divide in the United States. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
Civil Rights

FHSU survey finds Trump leading in Kansas, half say BLM deepens...

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Lyle Butler, chairman of Gov. Laura Kelly's task force working with federal COVID-19 aid, said Kansas should have dramatically expanded testing statewide as far back as five months ago. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)
COVID-19

Kansas prepares to spend $52 million to broaden COVID-19 testing, get...

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