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Rep. Adam Smith says he is drawing “a line in the stand” and refusing to back down on pla

TOPEKA — Rep. Adam Smith doesn’t care for five-year financial projections. The Weskan Republican wants big tax cuts — and he wants them now. He’s even willing to “draw a line in the sand” to get them. Financial forecasts are unreliable, he argued Friday before House members voted to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s vetoes of […] The post Kansas House overrides governor’s veto of tax cut bills despite gloomy five-year forecast appeared fir...

State Reps. Nick Hoheisel and Rui Xu come from different sides of the aisle, but they set an example by being genuinely friendly in these divisive times. | Opinion

Friday was a day six years in the making. 

Republican legislators in Kansas advanced proposals aimed at preventing individuals and companies from China and other U.S. adversaries from owning farmland or business property.

Republican legislators in Kansas advanced proposals aimed at preventing individuals and companies from China and other U.S. adversaries from owning farmland or business property.

Kansas legislators approved on Friday another year's worth of funding for most state agencies and services after a few lawmakers staged a last-minute public protest.

The Kansas Legislature passed an overhaul of the state’s income tax early Saturday, condensing the three current tax brackets into two. On Friday, state lawmakers approved another year's worth of funding for most state agencies and services including a 93% pay increase for themselves coming next year. Those stories and more inside.

By JOHN HANNA TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A bipartisan group of rank-and-file lawmakers in Kansas scuttled a plan for cutting taxes Thursday, w

A bipartisan group of rank-and-file lawmakers in Kansas scuttled a plan for cutting taxes Thursday, with Republicans defying GOP leaders and Democrats ignoring a personal appeal from the state's Democratic governor. It resulted from a deal between Gov. Laura Kelly and top Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature, but the House decided on a voice vote to have House and Senate negotiators draft a different plan. Others, mostly Democrats, argued that it was weighted too heavily toward w...