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.
Sen. Dennis Pyle, a Hiawatha Republican, failed to convince Senate colleagues to let the state's COVID-19 emergency disaster declaration expire Jan. 26 to reopen the economy. The Senate moved to extend the disaster declaration to March 31. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
COVID-19

Senate rejects attempt to force expiration of Kansas’ COVID-19 disaster declaration

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Courts and Crime

Kansas legislators weigh security risk as police gear up for threat...

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A pro-Trump mob broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C. and prompted the U.S. House to vote Wednesday in support of impeaching President Donald Trump. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Election 2020

Kansas delegation splits along party lines on impeachment

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Rep. Gail Finney, D-Wichita, takes part in a news conference Wednesday at the Statehouse with Democratic colleagues to call on better data tracking for maternity deaths. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
Civil Rights

Kansas bill advocates more reporting on racial elements of Black maternal...

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Bunker Hill Rep. Troy Waymaster, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said there were few surprises in Gov. Laura Kelly's new state government budget. (Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector)
Business

Gov. Kelly’s budget tackles Medicaid expansion, KPERS reform and deflates ‘Bank...

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Senate President Ty Masterson, an Andover Republican, said in a broadcast speech Tuesday public policy on abortion, taxes and education must be framed by respect for constitutional liberties and individual freedoms. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
Business

Senate president: GOP won’t accept folly of governor’s regime of ‘mandates,...

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Lobbyists socially distance during a Senate Judicary Committee hearing Tuesday on extension until March 31 of a law detailing state and local government authority for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The House is working on a comparable bill. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)
Business

Senate, House gearing up for lightning-fast extension of COVID-19 emergency law

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Senate President Ty Masterson and Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau chat Monday at the Capitol on the first day of the 2021 session — when 165 elected officials from all over the state converged for a scheduled 90-day session despite a deadly pandemic. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
Civil Rights

One Kansan’s death helps place politics of masks at Capitol into...

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Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and the Republican-dominated Kansas Legislature convene the annual session Monday at the Capitol with budget, tax, health and other issues on an agenda made wider due to the shortened 2020 session. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
COVID-19

Kansas Legislature commences annual session amid roiling COVID-19 pandemic

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Civil Rights

Scorned Kansas Rep.-elect Coleman answers demands for his resignation or ouster

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