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Judge blocks private prison operator from housing ICE detainees at shuttered Kansas center

Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Kansas

Judge blocks private prison operator from housing ICE detainees at shuttered Kansas center

50% Center coverage: 28 sources

Three Lawsuits Confirm that Kansas Lawmakers Concocted Menacing Attacks on Civil Rights • Kansas Reflector

Politics · Douglas County

Three Lawsuits Confirm that Kansas Lawmakers Concocted Menacing Attacks on Civil Rights • Kansas Reflector

100% Left coverage: 3 sources

The Ad Astra statue atop the Kansas Statehouse takes aim against a wall of gray clouds on May 2, 2025. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)In their supposed eagerness to save money and do right by taxpayers, perhaps Kansas Republican leaders could try passing laws that don’t trample on the rights of their constituents. That’s my only response to lawsuits filed throughout May that highlight the downright sloppy lawmaking that has become a hallmark of…See the Story

The Biggest Recent Union Wins Were in Art and Bacon

Politics · Wichita

The Biggest Recent Union Wins Were in Art and Bacon

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

The labor movement improves lives for all kinds of workers, and the two largest National Labor Relations Board elections of the month of May were at two very different workplaces: the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and Dold Foods in Wichita, Kansas. The path to better pay and more stable and dignified working conditions for everyone from art school professors to bacon workers runs through unionizing. (Daniel Acker / Bloomberg via Getty…Read Article

Kansas law nullifying end-of-life wishes during pregnancy challenged in court

Coverage: 7 sources

A Kansas state law that revokes a person’s decisions about end-of-life care if they are pregnant is now being challenged in court. Kansas Politics · Kansas See the Story

Kansas Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Satanists After Catholic Clash at Capitol - News Facts Network

50% Left coverage: 4 sources

TOPEKA — Kansas prosecutors have declined to pursue criminal charges against members of the Satanic... The post Kansas Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Satanists After Catholic Clash at Capitol appeared first on News Facts Network.Catholic Church · Topeka See the Story

Transgender teens challenge Kansas law banning gender-affirming care for minors

71% Left coverage: 7 sources

Two transgender teenagers and their parents are challenging a Kansas law banning gender-affirming care for minors, arguing the measure violates the state constitution and “is actively harming Kansas families” in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in a state district court. Kansas Politics · Kansas See the Story

Foreign Money Bans for Ballot Measures Could Be Headed to Supreme Court

100% Right coverage: 2 sources

Kansas will be the first legal battleground in 2025 to decide whether the national trend of banning foreign money from bankrolling ballot measures is legal—a matter that could be on its way to the Supreme Court. Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias’ firm is taking the lead in the litigation against the state bans on foreign money promoting state ballot initiatives, starting with Kansas. The federal lawsuit could affect other states that have pas…Politics · Topeka See the Story

Former chief justice says Supreme Court election in Kansas is a ‘really bad idea’

50% Center coverage: 4 sources

Sue Bond isn’t squeamish about partisan politics. Her late husband, Dick Bond, spent four years as the Republican president of the Kansas Senate after all. But Bond, 89, doesn’t think politics should determine who sits on the bench of the…Politics · Kansas See the Story

New Video: Unhinged Wichita Liberals Scream '86 47'

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

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Kansas group fights campaign donor law it sees as a response to its success defending abortion

50% Center coverage: 14 sources

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On Protests, Proclamations and Performative Politics - The Leavenworth Times

100% Center coverage: 1 sources

Back in December, I wrote a column on symbolism and substance in politics. At the time, I was especially struck by the problem of what it means to take political rhetoric — the constant, often bizarre social media statements flooding from the White House being a great example — “seriously but not literally.” As we continue, both in Kansas and across the country, to be caught up in a political environment filled with protests and proclamations th…Politics · Iola See the Story

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