4 天之前 · Kansas Reflector is a nonprofit news operation providing in-depth reporting, diverse opinions and daily coverage of state government and politics. This public service is free to readers and other news outlets. We’re part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.

2025年1月28日 · Identical bills in the Kansas House and Senate are attempting to ban gender-affirming care for minors in a renewed effort from Republicans to clamp down on transgender youths’ health care.

2025年1月19日 · Kansas' attorney general is part of a lawsuit seeking to change the U.S. Census in 2030 to help the state avoid losing one of its four U.S. House seats.

6 天之前 · Kansas Statehouse’s newest art installation, first by woman artist, celebrates suffragists BY: Anna Kaminski - January 29, 2025 TOPEKA — A crowd clamored Wednesday at the Kansas Statehouse to see the state’s suffragist icons and family members memorialized in paint. The mural-sized installation is the first by a woman artist in the Kansas Statehouse. The artist, Phyllis Garibay-Coon ...

2025年1月15日 · Gov. Laura Kelly shares her vision for Kansas during the annual State of the State address, emphasizing water, education, child-care and tax policy.

2025年1月6日 · Two Republican Senate newcomers say the main reason they beat their Democratic incumbent opponents — and the reason behind the expanded Republican supermajorities in the Legislature — was constituents’ concerns about taxes.

2024年12月31日 · We kept up the pace in 2024, with daily columns that ran the gamut from political commentary to reflections on geckos.

Sherman Smith is the editor in chief of Kansas Reflector. He writes about things that powerful people don't want you to know. A two-time Kansas Press Association journalist of the year, his award-winning reporting includes stories about education, technology, foster care, voting, COVID-19, sex abuse, and access to reproductive health care. Before founding Kansas Reflector in …

2024年12月20日 · The unprecedented budget takeover by the Kansas Legislature will begin the 2025 legislative session with a bare bones spending plan and sweeping cuts while Republican lawmakers eye property and corporation tax reductions.

2024年10月21日 · With two weeks and one day to go until the 2024 general election, political junkies have laser focused on the presidential race. Local superfans of democracy might want to widen that view. A host of Kansas races, candidates and stories will define at least the next two years of politics in the Sunflower State, for better or for appallingly worse. Here are five to keep watch for as we barrel ...