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  • Kris KobachPolitics

    Kansas’ Democratic governor spikes GOP plan to use $4,300 of taxpayer money to pay a fitness studio that flouted COVID restrictions

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly speaks to reporters during a news conference, Monday, April 24, 2023, in a second-grade classroom at Elmont Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas. Kelly has allowed a bill that bars state and local officials from using environmental, social and governance factors in investing public funds or awarding contracts to become law without her signature. (AP Photo/John Hanna)Finance

    Kansas officials won’t be able to use ESG factors in investments after Democratic governor lets culture-war measure become law

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • Kansas State Treasurer Steven Johnson, right, confers with Assistant State Treasurer Jeff Chanay during a Kansas Senate committee hearing on legislation aimed at preventing state funds from being invested using environmental, social or governance principles, Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Johnson, a Republican, backs such legislation. (AP Photo/John Hanna)Finance

    Kansas is the latest red state to pass a law against ESG investing but it didn’t go far enough for some politicians

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • Kansas state Sen. Mike Thompson with Jason LongFinance

    The business community to conservatives: Your anti-ESG culture war could bankrupt state pension systems

    By John Hanna, Tom Davies, and others
  • Neil Romano, President, The Romano Group, LLC and Member of the National Council on DisabilityFinance

    Disability rights advocates argue new Kansas bill would encourage employers to pay disabled staff less than minimum wage

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly discusses plans by Integra Technologies, of Wichita, Kansas, to build a new, $1.8 billion semiconductor factory, during a news conference, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The state has pledged $304 million in taxpayer-funded incentives over 10 years, but the project also needs federal funding. (AP Photo/John Hanna)Tech

    Kansas will pony up $304 million to get new chip factory in government push to build domestic semiconductor capacity

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • Private and home school students, their parents and advocates crowed part of the second floor of the Kansas Statehouse for a rally for giving parents tax dollars earmarked for public schools and allowing them to spend it how they choose on education, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in Topeka, Kan.. Years of pandemic restrictions and curriculum battles have emboldened a push from Republican lawmakers and school choice advocates to funnel public funds to private and religious schools in at least a dozen statehouses. (AP Photo/John Hanna)Politics

    Republican plan to use state tax money to pay for private and home schooling launches Kansas culture war

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press
  • A truck of oil spill responders in Kansas.Environment

    The biggest oil spill in the history of the Keystone pipeline is dumping more than a half million gallons of crude into a creek in Kansas

    By John Hanna, Heather Hollingsworth, and others
  • A remediation company deploys a boom on the surface of an oil spill after a Keystone pipeline ruptured at Mill Creek in Washington County, Kansas, on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Vacuum trucks, booms and an emergency dam were constructed on the creek to intercept the spill. (Kyle Bauer/KCLY/KFRM Radio via AP)Environment

    Keystone oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. shut after Kansas spill

    By John Hanna, Heather Hollingsworth, and others
  • Sports Betting Bill Kansas

    Kansas struggles with details of legalizing sports betting

    By John Hanna and The Associated Press