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One of the most secretive, dark states’: What is Kansas trying to hide?
Kansas runs one of the most secretive state governments in the nation, and its secrecy permeates nearly every aspect of service, The Star found in a months-long investigation.
https:// www.google.com/amp/amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article184179651.html
How Kansas lawmakers keep you from finding out what they’re doing — until it’s too late
It happened so fast that few inside Room 519-S of the Kansas Statehouse even realized what was going on.
As members of the House Transportation Committee gathered to consider legislation, then-Rep. Artie Lucas made his move. The Highland Republican stripped the language in a bill about vehicle registration fees and replaced it — not with another transportation measure, but with an anti-abortion proposal.
Within seconds, committee members passed the measure on an unrecorded voice vote, sending it to the House floor without a hearing and prompting an outcry from incensed colleagues who were blindsided by the action
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www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article184176596.html
the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity will be announced this week with Vice President Mike Pence as the chair and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as the vice chair
Kris Kobach helped craft Arizona SB 1070, the infamously strict Arizona immigration law passed in 2010.
He Has Been Responsible for Several Strict Voter ID Laws
Kobach has backed up Donald Trump’s claims that there were millions of illegal votes in the 2016 election and that this could have affected the popular vote outcome.
https:// www.google.com/amp/s/heavy.com/news/2017/05/kris-kobach-controversy-controversial-comments-immigration-voter-id-laws-donald-trump/amp/
Calif. bans state travel to Kansas over LGBT discrimination concerns
https:// www.google.com/amp/amp.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article128717554.html
A controversial bill that would make it easier for teachers to face criminal charges if they show material deemed offensive is moving forward in Kansas, sparking concern that it may actually result in educators being afraid to discuss literary classics or issues like sexual education.
The bill passed Wednesday in the Republican-controlled state Senate in a 26-14 vote and was apparently catalyzed after a poster was displayed at a middle school in Shawnee, Kansas last year with the headline “How do people express their sexual feelings,” with words like “kissing,” “sexual fantasy” and “anal sex” written underneath.
https:// www.google.com/amp/www.msnbc.com/msnbc/controversial-schools-bill-moves-forward-kansas/amp
. Many gun rights advocates praise Kansas for the many laws it has implemented in the past several years, from the 2006 Personal and Family Protection Act that permits residents to apply for concealed carry licenses to allowing school districts to decide if employees can carry concealed weapons.
http:// statelaws.findlaw.com/kansas-law/kansas-gun-control-laws.html