1.24.25 – KAKE The Kansas Department of Labor says December’s unemployment rate is an increase from 3.5% in November and an increase from 2.6% in December 2023. The Kansas Department of Labor says December’s unemployment rate is an increase from 3.5% in...
1.13.25 – The Topeka Capital-Journal Kansas lawmakers are returning to the capital city for the start of the annual legislative session. The House and Senate are scheduled to gavel in Monday for what is expected to be a largely ceremonial first day. Here’s...
1.10.25 – Kansas City Star – Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly describes herself as a chronic optimist. “You almost have to be in this job,” the two-term Democratic governor said in an interview late last year. The Kansas Legislature’s 2025 session could test the limits of her...
Evert Nelson – Capital Journal 1.1.25 – Topeka Capital-Journal – Jason Alatidd The start of a new year is also ushering in the start of new laws going into effect in Kansas. While it is far more common for new laws to take effect on July 1 following...
12.29.24 – Kansas City Today With a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democrat in the governor’s chair, 2024 was always going to be a contentious and complicated year in Topeka. That proved true on everything from taxes to Medicaid to health care for...
12.16.24 – TOPEKA (KSNT) Several new laws are set to go into effect at the start of next year in Kansas, including legislation that will finally do away with the state’s tax on food. Lawmakers in the Kansas Legislature passed more than a hundred new...
