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Kansas legislators Wednesday considered a proposal to impose a lower state sales tax on groceries than on other consumer goods in hopes of breaking an impasse among Republicans on tax issues.

Republicans at a House subcommittee hearing this week objected to a 2010 law that targets conflict minerals from Central Africa, saying it places too many regulations on U.S. businesses and hasn't accomplished enough since it went into effect.

Gov. Sam Brownback also urged Kansans to donate money and not drive down to the disaster area to help yet.

Kansas lawmakers signaled Tuesday that they're nearing a deal on a new state budget, as the House prepared for a floor vote on what could be the final version of the $14.5 billion proposal.

Graduation days are celebrations of hard work expended and the future opportunities that have been earned.

Often a phenomenon of bad marriages, "selective deafness" is when one hears only what is convenient.

As revenues ebb under the income-tax cuts, state leaders are looking at everything as a potential place to cut spending.

Should Kansas privatize services for the intellectually and developmentally disabled population? The issue has brought a lot of heat this month.

Sam Brownback's plan to stabilize the budget by canceling a scheduled decrease in the state sales tax.

Despite all the news media attention on the 3 ongoing Obama administration scandals there is a state /federal level battle that is playing out in Kansas between the Governor and the US Attorney General Eric Holder.

Sam Brownback prepared to give a "There's no place like home" presentation on his political reform efforts to the Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago.

Legislative leaders hoped negotiations would resume Monday on proposed budgets of roughly $14.5 billion for each of the next two fiscal years, beginning in July.

Core services – The current cost-cutting efforts of state government should spur serious conversation about what Gov.

A prominent conservative Kansas legislator has launched what could become the most aggressive campaign to date to rein in the state Supreme Court after a proposal failed that would have changed how its justices are selected.

At the invitation of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, Ethan Kaufman, Russell High School, Taylor Fry, Great Bend High School and Conner Birzer, Ellinwood High School, were selected to attend the 30th Annual Governor's Scholars Awards Program on May 5, in Topeka.

Seven Royal Valley High School freshmen are seeing a seventh-grade class project to research major league pitchers and brothers Virgil and Jesse Barnes result in a memorial to the baseball players.

The playfully alliterative headline for this post is spurred by this lengthy and effective local piece headlined "The Kansas death penalty has cobwebs." Here are excerpts: It may be weeks before Kansans know if prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Kyle Flack, accused of killing four people in Franklin County this spring.

Logan, who lives in Leawood, is a partner in the firm Logan Logan & Watson. He was appointed to the Board of Regents in 2011 by Governor Sam Brownback.

Governor Sam Brownback signed a law last month that requires drug screening for Kansas recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families .

A promotional video for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce includes endorsements by top political leaders in the state.