Alexis Gaudreau wanted the governor to know how it feels to have her future fettered to her performance on the ACT, a standardized test used for college admissions.The Topeka West High School senior got her chance at a meeting of the governor's education council earlier this year, where she served an important role in identifying and humanizing the stress students endure as they prepare for life after graduation.
Official certification of Kansas' general election voting Friday is expected to diminish by more than half U.S. Rep.-elect Steve Watkins' margin of victory over Democrat Paul Davis in the gritty 2nd Congressional District contest.
Eric Rucker, the assistant Kansas Secretary of State, and former State Rep. Joe Patton, R-Topeka, are pursuing the State Senate seat Vicki Schmidt, R-Topeka, will vacate as she becomes Kansas Insurance Commissioner in January.
U.S. Reps. Roger Marshall, R-Great Bend, and Ron Estes, R-Wichita, spent Thanksgiving in Kuwait. Members from the Kansas National Guard are among those stationed in Kuwait. "Our troops are doing an outstanding job. I was so honored to spend Thanksgiving with our men and women in uniform," Marshall said.
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran's tour of the state's 105 counties exposed both deep division on national policy issues and weariness with partisanship that inhibits progress on key issues in Washington, D.C.
A civil lawsuit filed in Shawnee County District Court in a long-running dispute alleges the Kansas Department for Children and Families protected a state official instead of his young daughter.
Ellis County Republican Party Chairman Dustin Roths is preparing over the next three weeks to sort out the state mandated process for replacing Ellis County Commissioner Barb Wasinger. According to state statutes, Roths is the designated person to usher the local party through each step: calling a meeting of the local precinct leadership in Wasinger's District 2, presenting candidates to those committee men and women, calling for them to vote, then submitting the successful candidate's name to the governor of Kansas for confirmation.
The large forest fires in California prompted a review "with a fine-tooth comb" of proposed Farm Bill language, but U.S. Rep. Roger Marshall, R-Great Bend, expressed hope Tuesday that leading Senate and House conferees will announce an overall agreement on a Farm Bill compromise.
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