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Congress knows how to slash child poverty. It just needs to do it.
The Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. Juan Carlos Ordóñez is the communications director of the Oregon Center for...
Lawmakers say marijuana is workforce issue, urge caution in legalization discussion
TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers said marijuana legalization, political stances and state funding were potential roadblocks in addressing the state’s severe workforce shortage. Sen. Virgil Peck, R-Havana, said the Special Committee on Workforce Development needed to talk...
Lawmakers say marijuana is workforce issue, urge caution in legalization discussion
TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers said marijuana legalization, political stances and state funding were potential roadblocks in addressing the state’s severe workforce shortage. Sen. Virgil Peck, R-Havana, said the Special Committee on Workforce Development needed to talk...
New York Times investigation shows how sports gambling industry exploited Kansas legislators
TOPEKA — A New York Times investigation into the gambling industry’s bare-knuckled lobbying efforts provides insight into concessions Kansas lawmakers provided when they legalized sports betting earlier this year. Among the revelations from the report, published...
For Kansas City area fans, sports wins feel inevitable. Let’s appreciate them.
Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. Eric Thomas directs the Kansas Scholastic Press Association and teaches visual...
Kansas health experts monitoring COVID-19, flu and RSV trifecta as holiday season arrives
TOPEKA — Physicians and public health researchers anticipate a surge in COVID-19 infection during the holiday months would complicate the medical response to rising prevalence of flu and a tricky influenza virus. The trifecta of COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial...
This Thanksgiving, your friendly Kansas opinion editor needs to get some gratitude off his chest
Many holidays thin and fray from familiarity. A relentlessly secularized Christmas too often marks commercial transactions, while the silly spookiness of Halloween has given way to adults parading around in superhero costumes. Thanksgiving, oddly enough, has been...
Suellentrop planning to leave Senate
Former Senate Majority Gene Suellentrop of Wichita has revealed his plans to leave the state Senate after the first of the year. Suellentrop has notified Senate leadership by email that he plans to leave office on Jan. 2, a spokesman for Senate...
District judge agrees to block telemedicine abortion ban
Law concept - Law book with a wooden judges gavel on table in a courtroom or law enforcement office A state judge on Wednesday agreed to temporarily stop a law that prohibited medical abortions using long-distance video technology. Following instructions from the...
New Kansas crime-tracking system halfway completed, officials say
TOPEKA — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation director said the agency’s new data tracking system is about halfway complete and will create a better overview of the state’s crime problem, including a potential rise in fentanyl cases. During a Tuesday legislative budget...
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