Kansas Values News Today

Gov. Laura Kelly was unable to get the GOP-controlled Legislature to quickly cut the food sales tax last session. Will next year be different?

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's centrist appeal, spending advantage and leveraging of Brownback legacy too much for GOP nominee Derek Schmidt to overcome.

The Dole Institute of Politics at KU on Tuesday brought together a panel of campaign staff, political scientists, a journalist and a PAC director to conduct a postmortem on the race Gov. Laura Kelly narrowly won in November.

Political experts, strategists, journalists will take part in conference Dec. 6-8

Figuring out the truth in ads like that can sometimes take a bit of digging.

Gov. Laura Kelly appointed, from left, Wint Winter, Cynthia Lane and Carl Ice to the Kansas Board of Regents to replace three appointees of former Gov. Sam Brownback. (Submitted) TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly moved to place a larger imprint Wednesday on the Kansas Board of Regents by naming a retired railroad executive, a prominent educator and a former Republican legislator to the state’s higher education governance board. The latest nominees combined with three members appointed during 2019 p...

A Republican-led Senate committee voted Wednesday for confirmation of Cynthia Lane, a former superintendent of Kansas City, Kansas, public schools, to the Kansas Board of Regents. (Screen capture/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate’s confirmation committee waded into the latest front of the political culture war with questions about critical race theory before voting to recommend approval of Gov. Laura Kelly’s three nominees to the state’s bipartisan higher education governanc...