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Tweet The Kansas legislature headed back to Topeka for a veto session Wednesday — and they’ll be there until a 2014 budget is approved. And northeast Johnson County residents have a chance to get firsthand accounts of how budget and tax talks have progressed of late at a public forum scheduled for Saturday at Village [...]
Tweet In an effort to keep our readers better informed about the state government actions that impact our communities, we are featuring regular update columns from northeast Johnson County’s elected officials in the legislature: Rep. Barbara Bollier, Rep. Stephanie Clayton, Rep. Melissa Rooker and Sen. Kay Wolf. Check back on Mondays to find out what’s [...]
Tweet You may be wondering why, as a resident of Topeka, Earl McIntosh feels the need to lead the charge against city ordinances in Prairie Village and Leawood banning the open carry of concealed weapons. (If you do, you’re not alone: Judge David Hauber wonders, too…). So if you’d like a bit of insight into [...]
Tweet All four state representatives serving northeast Johnson County — Reps. Barbara Bollier, Melissa Rooker, Stephanie Sawyer Clayton, and Emily Perry — and Sen. Kay Wolf voted against the sweeping abortion bill that passed the legislature on Friday and is on its way to Gov. Sam Brownback’s desk. The bill carried 28-10 in the Senate [...]
Tweet In an effort to keep our readers better informed about the state government actions that impact our communities, we are featuring regular update columns from northeast Johnson County’s elected officials in the legislature: Rep. Barbara Bollier, Rep. Stephanie Clayton, Rep. Melissa Rooker and Sen. Kay Wolf. Check back on Mondays to find out what’s [...]
Tweet Prairie Village-area Sen. Kay Wolf was among those to vote against a constitutional amendment that the state senate passed 27-13 Wednesday that would bar courts for making rulings impacting how state schools are funded. The bill call in response to the ruling by a three-judge panel last month, which deemed the legislature had been [...]
Tweet What are seen as attacks on teachers unions in the Kansas Legislature received little support from northeast Johnson County residents or their state representative this weekend. Considering the weather, a sizable group of 25th District constituents showed up Saturday morning for state Rep. Melissa Rooker’s town hall meeting at Sylvester Powell Community Center. More [...]
Tweet In an effort to keep our readers better informed about the state government actions that impact our communities, we are featuring regular update columns from northeast Johnson County’s elected officials in the legislature: Rep. Barbara Bollier, Rep. Stephanie Clayton, Rep. Melissa Rooker and Sen. Kay Wolf. Check back on Mondays to find out what’s [...]
Tweet When the Kansas Legislature convenes, the number one topic for residents of the Shawnee Mission School District often revolves around school finance. The 2013 session is no exception. But it can be a challenge to stay on top of the fast pace of the legislative action. All of the northeast Johnson County legislators — [...]
Tweet “Shawnee Mission teachers are under attack by a hostile state legislature,” Nancy Fritz told the Shawnee Mission School Board Monday night. Fritz, president of the Shawnee Mission chapter of the National Education Association (NEA), told the district that NEA expects more damaging legislation this session. She urged the board to “make a public show [...]
Tweet After a recent story we ran regarding the possibility of a proposed constitutional amendment in Kansas to alter the article on school finance, several readers asked us if we would ask our local legislators how they would vote on such a proposal. We did. Overall, Sen. Kay Wolf and State Reps. Barbara Bollier, Melissa [...]
Tweet In an effort to keep our readers’ better informed about the state government actions that impact our communities, we’ll be featuring regular update columns from northeast Johnson County’s elected officials in the legislature: Rep. Barbara Bollier, Rep. Stephanie Clayton, Rep. Melissa Rooker and Sen. Kay Wolf. Check back on Mondays to find out what’s [...]
Tweet Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback used part of his State of the State address Tuesday to take a subtle jab at Friday’s ruling by a three-judge panel stipulating that the government needs to increase spending on public schools to meet the state’s “suitable” eduction provision: In the democratic system of checks and balances crafted [...]
Tweet From the Lawrence Journal-World: By Scott Rothschild TOPEKA — Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, said Monday that state leaders are considering putting a constitutional amendment on the ballot in April that would thwart a court-ordered increase in school funding. The proposal is in response to last week’s ruling by a three-judge panel that [...]
Tweet The state’s transition to KanCare, combined with previous Medicaid difficulties, left one Prairie Village family without desperately needed services last week as the new system took effect. Finn Bullers, who has muscular dystrophy, type-1 diabetes, and is dependent on a ventilator to breathe, lost his home nursing care when he was dropped from his [...]
Tweet When the Kansas Legislature convenes in 2013, it could be a memorable session for Kansas and for Johnson County. A potential revenue crisis, an unusual number of new legislators, a conservative leadership and a precarious position for local education all point to an eventful year. Each of those points was touched on at the [...]
Tweet A group of Shawnee Mission parents has organized to get parents involved in education, especially with a focus on understanding what is happening in the state legislature and acting on that information. Game On emerged from Belinder Elementary where a small number of parents started meeting with their state representatives and school board member [...]
Tweet The Shawnee Mission School District has sent out information on its first Legislative Information Session of the school year, to be held next Thursday, Nov. 29: Shawnee Mission will welcome members of the community at 9 a.m. on Nov. 29 to McEachen Administrative Center, 7235 Antioch for its first Legislative Information Session of the [...]
Tweet The mood at in the ballroom of the Overland Park DoubleTree may have been somber as Johnson County Republicans watched the networks call the race for President Barack Obama. But in a suite on the hotel’s second floor, a group of moderate northeast Johnson County Republicans has reason to celebrate: House candidates Barbara [...]
Tweet We’re continuing with the candidates’ answers to the questionnaire we developed with input from PVPost.com readers earlier this month. We’ll be posting the answers to one questionnaire item per day through Friday. Today’s topic: the governor’s tax cutting plan. Gov. Brownback has spearheaded an aggressive tax reduction plan he says will increase employment and spur [...]
Tweet Today we begin publishing answers from candidates for the local statehouse elections to the questionnaire we developed with input from PVPost.com readers earlier this month. We’ll be posting the answers to one questionnaire item per day through Friday. (We’ve also got some great video from Saturday’s PVPost.com Candidate Forum at Village Presbyterian Church that [...]
Tweet Listen, readers: I don’t want to freak you out, but Election Day is just around the corner. And when you head into that voting booth on Nov. 6, the last thing you want is to be unprepared. Never fear! PVPost.com has got you covered! This Saturday, Oct. 20, we’ll be hosting the first-ever PVPost.com [...]
Tweet If you haven’t noticed by the near constant attention in the national press to a race between two fellas named Obama and Romney, there’s a big ol’ election coming up in November. And, as is our wont, we’re going to be putting out a questionnaire to local candidates about the issues most important to [...]
Tweet After a months-long application and interview process, Prairie Village resident Keven O’Grady learned recently that he has a new job: district court judge. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback officially announced Wednesday that he was appointing O’Grady to one of the two judicial openings in Johnson County. O’Grady was one of 11 lawyers from the county [...]
Tweet Today we publish the first answers to the questionnaire our readers helped develop for candidates in local statehouse races. 1) In 2011, Kansas cut the amount of basic aid it provides to public schools by close to 6 percent. Where do you stand on public school funding? Is the current amount of aid sufficient? [...]
