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The Topeka Capital-Journal is reporting that Fred W. Phelps Sr., nationally known for anti-gay speech, and pickets of soldiers’ funerals, has died. Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, was 84. Phelps ran for governor of Kansas in 1990. Among the early comments on his death is this one from the Washington Post, … Continue reading “Phelps dead at 84”
by Jim McLean, KHI News Service Topeka— Medicaid expansion is nowhere to be found on Gov. Sam Brownback’s list of priorities and those of Republican legislative leaders as they work through a legislative session now dominated by school finance issues. But that didn’t stop nearly 200 expansion supporters from crowding into a wing of the … Continue reading “200 rally at Statehouse for Medicaid expansion”
by Lawton R. Nuss Last year several legislators crafted a proposal for changing the constitutional process chosen by the people of Kansas for selecting Supreme Court justices. These legislators sought endorsements by the Kansas Bar Association and the Kansas District Judges Association (KDJA). According to several sources, the endorsements would induce the Legislature to give … Continue reading “Column: Do you like where this road could lead?”