The U.S. House cleared a $1.2 trillion physical infrastructure bill on Friday evening and the bill is on its way to Pres. Joe Biden for his signature. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will Deliver for Kansas from the largest long-term investment in our country’s infrastructure an…
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly says she plans to introduce legislation in January to exempt food from the state sales tax, joining Attorney General Derek Schmidt in urging GOP leaders to take action on the issue.
Progeny, a youth justice reform group, wants the State of Kansas to take another strong look at improving its juvenile correctional system and they’ve prepared a report to help guide that change.
The Senate approved legislation Tuesday to make Juneteenth, or June 19, a federal holiday commemorating the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Missouri is one of sixteen states that have enacted legislation allowing college athletes to profit from their name, image, and likeness. However, Kansas legislators failed to send a similar bill to the governor's desk this session, putting the state’s elite college programs at a recruiting …
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly joined area dignitaries, community supporters and corporate sponsors for the groundbreaking on the Phase 1a restoration project of the Historic Dunbar Theater near 9th and Cleveland in Wichita. Learn more about the restoration project and see renderings of the final …
Four Kansas nonprofit organizations have been selected as grant recipients of a new initiative to increase equity in school readiness and educational outcomes created by the Kansas Health Foundation (KHF) and the United Methodist Health Ministry Fund (Health Fund). Recipients include Kansas …
Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha had requested their own Kansas License tag, an effort that Rep. Gail Finney (D-Wichita) had been working to get approved for several years. This year, Finney and the ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha scored a victory with their new custom tag approved as part of a pack…
In 2014, after the violent rape and murder of Letitia Davis in Fairmount Park, WSU launched its Enough is Enough Campaign to help address community concerns in the nearby Fairmount neighborhood. Initially, the university’s efforts focused on the Fairmount Neighborhood. However, as initiall…
Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and leading voting rights activist, said Wednesday that she will launch another campaign to become the nation’s first Black woman governor.
African art used to be a style marketed to an elite group of art collectors.
