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The chairman of the Kansas Board of Education says the Legislature and others have to show more support for teachers or the exodus of teaching talent to

Kansas lawmakers are trying to appeal to the religious right with a bill aimed at making sure same-sex marriage stays in the closet. Missouri legislators are currying favor with the gun-toting crowd that haplessly wants to nullify federal laws.

OOF. Not that I wanted to live in Missouri anyway...

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The Kansas House will move forward with a bill that would give government employees the right to refuse service to same-sex couples on the basis of their religious beliefs.

What the people don't understand is that they are England in this pilgrim scenario. THEY are the ones persecuting.

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About 18 months after Google launched its Kansas City fiber-to-the-home effort the Kansas state legislature is introducing a bill to prevent other state municipalities to get involved in building their own broadband efforts — even in partnership with private companies. Several states have laws on the books that limit what municipalities can do to bring&

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There are any number of Kansas legislators who preach fiscal responsibility, but how responsible is it to keep raiding a fund set aside for underprivileged children's early education? In a story in Wednesday's edition, reporter Michael Strand wrote about how lawmakers for years have been ...

"In a story in Wednesday's edition, reporter Michael Strand wrote about how lawmakers for years have been taking tobacco settlement money that was supposed to go into an endowment fund for the Kansas Action for Children and using it for other purposes.

Kansas Action for Children President and CEO Shannon Cotsoradis told Strand that by now $140 million should have gone into the agency's endowment. If the money had been there and earned the same rate as the state's retirement system, KPERS, the fund now would be well over $200 million.

At 5 percent a year, that would mean another $10 million a year that could go toward early childhood programs such as Head Start and Early Head Start.

- See more at: http://www.salina.com/Editorials/Raiders-edit-for-Thursday--Aug-1--2013#sthash.IXTDdYyX.dpuf"

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The bills ranged from the dangerous to the merely wacky, many of them solutions in search of problems. Two of the more disturbing regard babies and bullets.

"Some Kansans are so desperate they consider leaving the state they love. But I don't want to leave. I want my state back."

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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said Friday that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney focused too narrowly on economic issues during last year's campaign and that the GOP needs to stick to its principles on social issues such as gay marriage and abortion.

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Rep. Tim Huelskamp said he will file a constitutional amendment later this week to restore DOMA. The Kansas Republican said he will be joined by other conservatives in supporting that effort. “My response to this will be later this week to file a federal marriage amendment,” he said at a Conversation with Conservatives lunch on Wednesday...

Our representatives are such winners.

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The heavily conservative Kansas Legislature showed itself repeatedly this year to be meddlesome, callous to people’s needs and downright foolish in many instances. The new budget reflects those tendencies, and the state will have to live with it.

This about sums it up.

"The budget is intrusive. After ordering the University of Kansas Medical Center to create a special stem cell research center during the session, lawmakers injected a budget resolution forbidding the school to reduce its enrollment or end programs — severely limiting the university’s options for dealing with a budget cut of $8.3 million over two years."

"The new heavily conservative Kansas Legislature showed itself repeatedly this year to be meddlesome, callous to people’s needs and downright foolish in many instances. The new budget reflects those tendencies, and the state will have to live with it."

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/09/4279415/kansas-budget-reflects-legislatures.html#storylink=cpy"

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/09/4279415/kansas-budget-reflects-legislatures.html#storylink=cpy

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The Senate approved a watered-down version of a bill Saturday demanded by conservatives to inhibit expenditure of money by the Kansas State Board of Education on implementation of new academic standards, only to see it die in the House by a 55-58 vote.

Amazing how strengthening math and english education isn't common sense in Kansas.

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"But instead of addressing these safety issues, Tunnell said, the Legislature approved and Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law measures that make it more difficult for injured workers to collect workers' compensation."

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