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3 hrs ago | The Land of the Free

Obama's and Holder's Selective Constitutional Deafness

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

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Sam Brownback, US Governors, Immigration Reform, Opinion

7 hrs ago | The Wichita Eagle

Eagle editorial: Dona t target NCAT

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

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Related Topix: Wichita, KS, US Governors, Sam Brownback, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Education Etc., Opinion

11 hrs ago | Hays Daily News

Privatization can work, but only if done right

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

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Opinion

15 hrs ago | The Kansas City Star

Kansas lawmakers still deadlocked on tax, budget issues

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

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, US Governors, Sam Brownback

Mon May 20, 2013

Examiner.com

Kansas leading the charge at state level for gun rights laws

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Kansas, US Senate, Republican, US Governors, Sam Brownback, Guns, Sean Parnell

The Wichita Eagle

Kansas lawmakers start Monday in gridlock

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.

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Related Topix: US Senate, Republican, US Politics, US News, US Governors, Sam Brownback

WIBW-TV Topeka

Higher Ed Spending Key Issue In Kansas Budget Talks

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.

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Related Topix: US Senate, Republican, US Politics, US News, US Governors, Sam Brownback

The Wichita Eagle

Re: Kansas Views on core services, Roberts' pandering, waiting ...

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

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Pat Roberts, Kansas, US Governors, Sam Brownback, Capitol Hill (Washington, DC)

Sun May 19, 2013

The Capital-Journal

Analysis: Bigger push on Kansas courts may be coming

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Death Penalty, US Governors, Sam Brownback, Shawnee County, KS

Great Bend Tribune

Local students named Governor's Scholar

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Kansas, US Governors, Sam Brownback

The Hutchinson News, Hutchinson Kansas

Kan. highway signs saluting MLB players going up

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Circleville, KS, Kansas, Holton, KS, Wichita, KS

Sat May 18, 2013

Sentencing Law and Policy

A (dynamically?) dormant death penalty in Dorothy's domocile

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.

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Related Topix: Death Penalty, Kansas, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Kansas Government, Violent Crime

Prairie Village Post

Fred Logan elected to chair Kansas Board of Regents

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Leawood, KS, US Governors, Sam Brownback, Johnson County, KS, Kansas City, KS

The Heritage Foundation

States Expand Welfare Drug Testing

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

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Related Topix: Drug Testing, US Governors, Sam Brownback, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Drug Addiction (Substance Abuse), Health, Medicine, Alcoholism, Arkansas

The Wichita Eagle

Kansas Chamber video showcases close political ties

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

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, US Governors, Sam Brownback, Wichita, KS

OttawaHerald.com

SMITH: Privatization works ... when done right

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

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Opinion

Fri May 17, 2013

DVM

Additional funding OK'd for Kansas biolab

The Kansas Senate approved a bill Wednesday, May 15, to provide an additional $202 million in bonds for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility planned on the campus of Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., bringing the price tag to approximately $1.255 billion.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, US Governors, Sam Brownback

AmmoLand

Obama Breeds Rebellion Among the States

It may well become the most unpopular law since Prohibition became an Amendment to the Constitution in 1919.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Guns, Nikki Haley, US Governors, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Sam Brownback

ReporterHerald.com

States prepare to defend controversial laws

New gun and abortion laws that sailed through Republican-controlled state legislatures this year are about to face scrutiny in a less hospitable arena: the courtroom.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Abortion, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Kansas, US Governors, Sam Brownback

The Wichita Eagle

Re: Don't reverse course at KU medical school

Good for the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce and city and county leaders for writing University of Kansas chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little to express their concerns over possible cuts to the KU School of Medicine in Wichita.

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Related Topix: Wichita, KS, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, University of Kansas

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