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Kansas Legislature

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Lawmakers Surprising Final Action

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.25.2012

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Kansas lawmakers may have worked through the weekend with no nap breaks, but the state remains the only one in the nation without a redistricting plan...

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Dems Accuse GOP Of Anti-'Kumbaya' Lawmaking

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.19.2012

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Following a debate that compared Kansas to New York City, the Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives on Friday passed a new congression...

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State Lawmakers Ban Sharia Law, Legalize Happy Hour

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.11.2012

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A day after state lawmakers accused the United Nations of trying to "infiltrate" local governments, the Republican-controlled Kansas Senate adopted a ...

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Lawmakers Pass Stricter Voter Reg Law For 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.08.2012

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The Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass legislation requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration star...

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Ultraconservative 'Powerplay' Blamed For Gridlock

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.07.2012

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The war between moderate and conservative Republicans in Kansas is threatening to send the state's redistricting process into a tailspin. With a Th...

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Kansas Barber Veto Raises Eyebrows

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.18.2012

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Vetoes of three bills in Kansas -- including an obscure one relating to licensing barbers -- are raising eyebrows in the state legislature. Kansas...

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GOP Lawmakers Allow Doctors, Pharmacists To Refuse Treatment

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.31.2012

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The Republican-controlled Kansas House of Representatives this week passed legislation making it easier for doctors, nurses and pharmacists to deny ab...

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Kansas Lawmakers Have It Both Ways, Vote To Ban State Worker Abortion

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.17.2012

The day after a Kansas legislative committee adopted an amendment to protect accreditation of the OBGYN residency program at the University of Kansas ...

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GOP Lawmaker: Don't Split My Caucasian District

HuffingtonPost.com | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 03.15.2012

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A Kansas state lawmaker told colleagues Wednesday that she opposed a proposed redistricting map because it would put her "primarily Caucasian" neighbo...

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Anti-Abortion Bill Could Tax Rape Victims

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.08.2012

The sweeping anti-abortion bill working its way through the Kansas Legislature would levy a sales tax on women seeking abortions, including rape victi...

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Anti-Abortion Bill Jeopardizes Medical Education Program

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.05.2012

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Kansas lawmakers are rushing to save the state's OBGYN medical residency program, which is threatened by the state's sweeping anti-abortion bill. ...

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'This Is The Largest And Most Sweeping Overhaul,' Says Abortion Rights Advocate

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 02.06.2012

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Kansas lawmakers have been given six days to consider one of the most sweeping state anti-abortion bills to be introduced. A Kansas House committee...

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Control Of 'Divided Party' At Stake

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 12.05.2011

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In Kansas, Republican state legislators have leaned increasingly conservative. Now a leader of the state's moderate Republican faction is vowing to fi...

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Kansas Official Pushes For Immigration Law Like Arizona's

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 11.14.2011

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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is promising to press several controversial immigration measures when the state legislature reconvenes in Januar...

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Monsanto Forced Fox TV to Censor Coverage of Dangerous Milk Drug

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/856 The following is the third in a series called Get Our Milk Off Drugs, written in response to pending le...

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George Tiller Murder: Scott Roeder Faces Life Sentence, But Some Argue Abortion Provider's Killer Got His Way

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

WICHITA, Kan. — The man who gunned down one of the few doctors in the U.S. to perform late-term abortions could be sent to prison Thursday for t...

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States Selling Addiction: "Why Not? We Need the Money!"

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011

Our financial and emotional needs now dictate that state governments sedate their citizens, while picking their pockets, from California to Kansas to the Mid-Atlantic.

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