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Business leaders from across Kansas showed up on the second day of the 2021 legislative session to support efforts to extend the current emergency powers legislation in place since last summer.
It is with profound sadness we announce the passing of Grant Michael Dawd on January 9, 2021 after a sudden courageous battle with cancer at the age of 59 with his devoted advocate mother holding his hand at St. Joseph’s Hospice. Grant was born on November 21, 1961, in Fort William, ON. He spent his childhood summers at One Island Lake where he would enjoy time with family and friends participating in various activities such as swimming, fishing, building forts, and anything else that kept him moving. After graduating from FWCI high school, Grant worked at the Abitibi Paper Mill. At...
Noah Taborda, Kansas Reflector photo by: AP File Photo Jars of marijuana are seen on display at Montana Advanced Caregivers, a medical marijuana dispensary, Nov. 11, 2020, in Billings, Mont. TOPEKA — After a shortened session dashed hopes for medicinal cannabis legalization in 2020, proponents of the plant are taking a fresh approach for the upcoming legislative session. Last year, two separate bills were filed pushing for medicinal use, but both died in committee, despite a push to consider cannabis legislation in June when lawmakers convened for a special session. One of the bills offere...
Legislator believes protesters should be removed from Capitol building Watching on television the protesters who have taken over the Capitol in Washington, D.C., State Sen. David Haley, D-4th Dist., today said the protesters should be taken out of the Capitol building. Instead, they were allowed to roam through the Senate building, according to video on televised reports, looking through papers on senators’ desks. The protesters interrupted the Electoral College proceedings, with the U.S. House and Senate evacuated. State Sen. Haley, the longest-serving state legislator currently in Wyandot...
Rep.-elect Aaron Coleman State Rep.-elect Aaron Coleman, D-37th Dist., says he has heard there are plans to swear him in on Monday, Jan. 11, then expel him from the Kansas House of Representatives. Coleman, a 20-year-old supporter of Bernie Sanders issues, upset State Rep. Stan Frownfelter, a long-time Democrat lawmaker, in a very close primary election, and then Coleman won by a wide majority, 66 percent, in a write-in challenge at the general election in November. Overturning his election would be a “slap in the face” to Wyandotte County voters, Coleman stated this week. “They’re di...