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- Earthjustice praises Sebelius over coal plant decisions
- A Kline rewind?
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Key players
- The 2007 legislative session will chug along with shifting alliances on issue after issue. Here are some of the heavy hitters who will be driving the train.
Keeping track
- www.kansas.gov The general state of Kansas Web site with links to state agencies and numerous other resources.
- www.kslegislature.org The Legislature’s Web site. You can look up bills, track their progress and get committee information. You can also find out who your legislator is and how to get in touch with him or her.
- www.kslib.info The Kansas State Library Web site that has links to governmental Web sites that cover just about every issue in the public domain.
- To check on a bill or leave a message for a legislator by telephone, call the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-432-3924.
- Need to rewrite abortion law questioned
- July 4, 2008
- Some abortion opponents doubt a state law restricting late-term procedures needs to be rewritten, despite a grand jury’s conclusion that it isn’t clear enough to allow an indictment of Dr. George Tiller.
- Bigger tax refunds lop state budget
- July 3, 2008
- State government’s economic woes worsened during the past two months in part because of huge business tax refunds, officials said Wednesday.
- Search panel OK’d to find new KSU leader
- July 3, 2008
- The search for a replacement for Kansas State University’s retiring president Jon Wefald took a step forward Wednesday as the Kansas Board of Regents approved a search committee.
- Grand jury declines to indict Tiller
- 04:53 p.m., July 2, 2008 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- A Kansas grand jury declined Wednesday to indict one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers, saying it did not find enough evidence to indict him on any crime related to abortion laws.
- Pro coal-plant lawmakers appointed to energy panel
- Sloan among those named by Neufeld
- July 1, 2008
- House Speaker Melvin Neufeld appoints lawmakers that supported Holcomb project to panel mapping out longterm energy plan.
- State revenues miss projections in latest quarter
- 10:54 a.m., July 1, 2008 Updated 12:00 a.m.
- State government collected $61 million less than anticipated in taxes during its recently ended 2008 fiscal year, a 1 percent shortfall that could create budget headaches.
- Lawrence man appointed chief hearing officer of tax appeals court
- July 1, 2008
- Trevor Wohlford, of Lawrence, has been appointed by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as chief hearing officer of the Kansas Court of Tax Appeals.
- Analysis: No rush expected on ruling on juvenile trials
- June 30, 2008
- The Kansas Supreme Court saying that juveniles must have jury trials for the asking will give legislators something to think and talk about.
- Supreme Court: Gambling law constitutional
- June 28, 2008
- Plans for four state-owned and -operated resort casinos will continue moving forward but without any doubt about their constitutionality. In a unanimous ruling Friday, the state’s highest court put to rest the question about last year’s Kansas Expanded Lottery Act, which calls for casinos in Cherokee, Ford, Sumner and Wyandotte counties, plus slot machines at the Woodlands in Kansas City, Kan., and Camptown Greyhound Park in Frontenac.
- Gov. asks agencies to reduce spending
- June 28, 2008
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has asked all cabinet agencies to cut planned spending by 1 percent to 2 percent, even before the state begins a new budget year on Tuesday, saying the move is needed because of the sluggish economy.
- Kansas Supreme Court: Gambling law is constitutional
- June 27, 2008
- The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s expanded gambling law is constitutional.
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