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Kansas remapping flap is constitutional crisis, elections chief says
By Gene Meyer | Kansas Reporter TOPEKA — Kansas is in the midst of a constitutional crisis, Secretary of State Kris Kobach , the state’s chief election officer, said Wednesday. Candidates must decide by June 11 whether to run, or not to run. But they don’t yet know who their opponents might be, or which doors to knock on.
TOPEKA — The Kansas House on Friday approved a controversial resolution to condemn Agenda 21, a 20-year-old United Nations statement with implications for state, county and local planning.
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TOPEKA —It sounds like the theme of a sci-fi terror flick, or an action film involving computers and a secret government plot to enslave the world. And, sure, said state Rep. Greg Smith , R-Overland Park, some people hear him discuss Agenda 21 , and the theme music from “Twilight Zone” starts playing in their head.
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By Gene Meyer | Kansas Reporter Missouri lawmakers may relax their state’s monitoring of radioactive-waste haulers, a move that worries some Kansans . “The implications for both states are significant,” said Lisa Janario , a senior policy analyst with the Council of State Governments , a nonpartisan think tank. “( Interstate) 70 goes completely across both states, and Kansas City is a major rail hub for the whole region.” Kansas regulates radioactive-waste shipments far more loosely than nearby Missouri, Iowa and other Midwestern states through which such waste travels from the power-hungry East to the more sparsely populated West, which has more underground storage
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On a vote of 62-49, the bill was re-referred to the joint Health committee. With just over one week left in the 2012 session, House Bill 2690 will die, having literally met its makers
Continue reading …By Gene Meyer | Kansas Reporter TOPEKA — Kansas is moving closer to converting its $3 billion Medicaid program to a privately run managed-care plan. Medicaid is a state and federal program that pays for about 380,000 Kansans who otherwise could not afford medical care. Kansas’ share is about $1.1 billion annually
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By Gene Meyer and Paul Soutar | Kansas Reporter/Kansas Watchdog WICHITA — Sam Brownback retired from the U.S. Senate in 2010 to run for Kansas governor
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Exclusive: TransCanada’s new preferred pipeline route By Deena Winter | Nebraska Watchdog OMAHA — The Canadian pipeline company that wants to build a pipeline across the nation’s mid-section has given Nebraska officials a report identifying alternative routes around the state’s Sandhills region, with a preferred route identified. The report – which was obtained by Nebraska Watchdog – lays out preferred “corridors” for a newly routed pipe.
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By Steven Greenhut | VP of Journalism Several years ago, I appeared on a television news show discussing a local political issue with one of the reporters from the newspaper where I worked as a columnist. As our discussion turned to debate, the reporter said, “Steve, the difference between you and me is that I deal in facts and you deal in opinion.” I was stunned, given that she was as opinionated as I am, and my columns were as highly reported and fact-filled as her news reports
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Kansas officials played a shell game with government reports they used to support a statewide tobacco ban. In arguing that the state’s 2010 Kansas Indoor Clean Air smoking ban hasn’t hurt business, officials and activists pointed to Kansas Department of Revenue data that showed no decline in revenues. There’s just one thing wrong with that KDOR data: it’s irrelevant.
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