Kansas

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TOPEKA — Sen. Virgil Peck wants to raise the rent of reporters who write “inaccurate” things about him from their Statehouse offices.

The war between the Kansas GOP and Kansas' media organizations and government transparency laws continues...

TOPEKA — Sen. Virgil Peck wants to raise the rent of reporters who write “inaccurate” things about him from their Statehouse offices.

The war between the Kansas GOP and Kansas' media organizations and government transparency laws continues...

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/24780075

If you want to request your data from DOGE, Jamie Raskin outlines how to do so here: https://jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/

This is the class of behavior that is so desperately needed across the country to show our elected servants who's really in charge of this country: the people of the United States, not the oligarchs.

Absolutely disgusting.

“If it was up to me, Election Day would be Election Day,” Proctor added. “There wouldn’t be early voting. Mail-in ballots would only be for military or severely disabled. But I got to bring 84 people with me, so I’m trying to chip away at it.”

According to testimony the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office provided to Proctor’s committee, 2,110 ballots were received after Election Day last November and counted. There were 603 ballots received after the grace period, and 104 ballots arrived after Election Day with no postmark.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/28024792

Demand for abortion in Kansas skyrocketed by 58% during 2023 in response to near-total bans on the procedure in Missouri and Oklahoma and strict limits in other Midwest states.

"The increases in property tax are inflationary, and act as an impediment to home ownership. Some of our citizens on fixed incomes are being forced to sell their homes simply because they cannot afford to pay the annual tax bill, and that is a terrible situation.

"In my personal opinion, property tax is evil and unconstitutional. Property tax makes government your permanent landlord, whether you own your home or not. Even if you rent, the owner of the property eventually must include the increase in property tax on to your monthly bill in order to maintain a profit margin. There is no way you can ever truly own your own property. You could always lose it in a tax sale."

"While knocking on doors leading up to the election, the number one issue for the vast majority of people was the incessant, exorbitant increase in property tax each year. This is not unique to Johnson County. It is happening in many areas of the state."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21457570

The Flat Earther next door: These are the US states with highest share of conspiracy theorists

Another sign of a broken system...

A call to action, to be sure.

What a total waste of tax money...

Makes you very happy to see this!

Absolutely ridiculous...

A work vehicle bearing the saying that supports a white supremacist group was spotted in Hutchinson and reported to social media.

The slogan, according to the ADL, was coined by David Lane, a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13826334

A weekly central Kansas newspaper and its publisher filed a federal lawsuit Monday over police raids last summer of its offices and the publisher’s home, accusing local officials of trying to silence the paper and causing the death of the publisher’s 98-year-old mother. 

The lawsuit did not include a specific figure for potential damages. However, in a separate notice to local officials, the paper and its publisher said they believe they are due more than $10 million.

The lawsuit from the Marion County Record’s parent company and Eric Meyer, its editor and publisher, accuses the city of Marion, the Marion County Commission and five current and former local officials of violating free press rights and the right to be free from unreasonable law enforcement searches guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit also notified the defendants that Meyer and the newspaper plan to add other claims, including that officials wrongly caused the death of Meyer’s mother the day after the raids, which the lawsuit attributes to a stress-induced heart attack.

Glad to see Kansas doing this and trying to bring some transparency back to the statehouse!

Crooked cop couldn't remember the Miranda Rights and threw a pizza party to celebrate... This story gets worse with every new revelation.

Suggesting that lead paint in water is of trivial importance is cartoonishly evil

Unfortunately, the oil-funded NIMBY scourge continues...

At this point, we really ought to be shouting about this from every rooftop in the country.

The ghouls are back at it again with the flat tax proposal. Infuriating that they keep bringing this up; Laura Kelly and the handful of reasonable Republicans need to stand their ground. Please contact your state senators and representatives today!

I really like Laura Kelly's takes here; glad to see that the looming water crisis, education crisis, and rural hospital shutdowns are taking center stage in her budget. Hopefully the Republicans are willing to support these measures as well, and even better if they drop the idiotic flat-tax proposal and school vouchers proposal they put forward perennially at this point...