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Dodge City Daily Globe
19 Dec, 2018
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Kansas may end up giving away up to $10 million in unused computer hardware
The administration of Gov. Jeff Colyer is attempting to negotiate with a university to donate or sell at a steep discount as much as $10 million in unused computer equipment stored for several years in Docking State Office Building in Topeka, legislators said Tuesday.
Kansas Sen. Dinah Sykes, Rep. Stephanie Clayton flip from Republican to Democrat

Kansas Sen. Dinah Sykes and Rep. Stephanie Clayton served notice Wednesday of a decision to politically re-brand themselves by leaving the Republican Party to represent Johnson County districts as Democrats.

Capitol Insider podcast: Kansas Hospital Association prepares for pushback on Medicaid expansion

Tom Bell, the president and CEO of the Kansas Hospital Association, and Chad Austin, who lobbies for the KHA in the Statehouse, discuss their optimism for the upcoming legislative session during a conversation for Capitol Insider, the podcast of The Topeka Capital-Journal that explores people and policy in state government.

Judge in 111th Kansas House District voting contest named; voting machine data analyzed

Ellis County District Court Judge Blake A. Bittel has been chosen to hear the contested election case between 111th District Rep. Eber Phelps and Ellis County Commissioner Barb Wasinger.Bittel was chosen Tuesday at a 2 p.m. hearing at the Kansas Supreme Court in Topeka.

Kansas to pay $1.1 million to Richard Jones after he served 17 years for a wrongful conviction

A man who was incarcerated for 17 years for a Johnson County robbery he didn't commit will receive $1.1 million in compensation under a new state law.

KDHE fines hog farmers $34,000 for constructing barns without state permits

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment slashed to $34,000 the fine paid by a northwestern Kansas hog business for building confined feeding facilities in Norton and Phillips counties without permits and for ignoring the state's cease-and-desist orders to halt the work.

Kansas coalition seeks $30 million state investment in family, child welfare programs

A coalition of Kansas advocacy groups proposed Monday the state invest $30 million to qualify for a matching federal grant to expand mental health, substance abuse and parenting programs to strengthen at-risk families and reduce child abuse and neglect.

ACLU analysis says Kansas voters have different access depending on where they live

Convenience plays as important a role in voter participation as political passion or apathy, according to an analysis of recent state elections published this past week by the ACLU of Kansas.

Kansas audit points to breakdowns in state oversight of pet animal facilities

Auditors working for the Kansas Legislature reported last week a majority of problems with regulation of pet animal facilities outlined in a 2002 report had yet to be addressed and indicated the Kansas Department of Agriculture failed to conduct timely inspection of businesses and to consistently sanction repeat offenders.

Republicans select top Kobach assistant to complete Topeka senator’s term

Assistant Secretary of State Eric Rucker prevailed in a two-person contest this past week to win appointment to the Senate seat to be vacated upon departure of Topeka Republican Sen. Vicki Schmidt to take office in January as the state’s insurance commissioner.

Judge E. Leigh Hood appointed new chief judge for Kansas’ 16th Judicial District

The Kansas Supreme Court has appointed District Judge E. Leigh Hood as chief judge for the 16th Judicial District. Hood will succeed Chief Judge Van Hampton, who is retiring.

Gov.-elect Laura Kelly preparing to ‘triage’ response to weakened state agencies

Gov.-elect Laura Kelly's detailed review of the Republican-controlled executive branch in Kansas exposed unexpectedly deep problems requiring a triage approach familiar to doctors responding to a calamity.

Topekans ask Supreme Court to intervene in business relocation dispute with City Hall

Two tenants who lost business leases to accommodate a city of Topeka drainage project urged the Kansas Supreme Court this past week to interpret state law to require payment by the government of relocation expenses to displaced renters even when a landlord sold property without imposition of eminent domain.

Pro-choice group seeks to block new Kansas law on telemedicine abortions

A Shawnee County District Court judge implied during a hearing this past week that he might issue an order allowing telemedicine abortions to continue in Kansas despite adoption of a law by the Legislature and Gov. Jeff Colyer to prohibit the procedure.

Pressure builds for next phase of action on Kansas’ man-made earthquakes

WICHITA - Lori Lawrence can close her eyes and relive the first major earthquake to strike her century-old house on North Larraine Drive."I didn't feel it. I heard it," she said. "It was like a backhoe bucket being dropped to the ground. That sound is what got me."Lawrence, who has grown uncomfortably familiar with earthquakes since that abrupt introduction in 2014, said she empathized with frustration among residents of Reno, Ellis and Saline counties rattled by more recent earthquakes that researchers believe to be a delayed reaction to energy companies funneling large amounts of wastewater underground through injection wells.