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Pay and pensions

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Kansas legislators have been busy hacking hundred-million dollar chunks from Gov. Laura Kelly's budget for state services while creating ways to carve out a...
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Teachers and schools

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On the first day of class in Latin II our teacher, Gladys De Nio, told us how to open the new textbooks: Starting with...
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Falling flat

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The Legislature is at it again, slogging on about a flat tax ‒ that is, a single rate for Kansas income taxes. (How "flat"...
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Sibling wars (3)

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At Hutchinson in January the Republican First District Committee censured Sen. Jerry Moran because he voted for spending bill supported by President Biden. (The...
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Sibling wars (2)

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The Republicans' censure of Jerry Moran and the ascent of state chairman Mike Brown, an election conspiracy promoter, are recent flashpoints in a long...
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Sibling wars (1)

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Last month in Hutchinson, the Republicans' First District Congressional Committee voted to censure Jerry Moran because he voted for a federal spending bill endorsed...
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Kelly and Docking (3) Last of three articles

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By 1974, the last of Robert Docking's eight years as governor of Kansas, the cost of state government had doubled, from a record $638...
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Kelly and Docking (2)

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Second of three articles The day after Gov. Robert Docking's inauguration in 1967, the Kansas Legislature faced a thicket of issues: implementation of three constitutional...
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Weather report

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For our small patch of north Lindsborg, the rain gauge and the snow stick tell us that last year was dry. Annual rainfall since...
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Balance of purpose

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Of the 125-members in the Kansas House of Representatives, 76 were elected in five metropolitan counties. The count: Johnson County ‒ 27 members: 11 Republicans,...