Gov. Sam Brownback roared up to the Statehouse last week on his Big Dog motorcycle. "A real sweet machine," Brownback said of his Wichita-made bike. It was a grand entrance for the Republican governor attempting to make a grand impact on Kansas.
The letter from the Kansas Department of Corrections reached Kristen Beaudette's Goddard home in August 2010. She thought she and her daughter were protected from the man who had broken her daughter's arm when the girl was a month old.
Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, and scores of Republican legislators are the focus of an investigation into alleged violations of the state law that is aimed at ensuring that policy debate occur in the open, it was revealed Friday.
A grass roots organization founded by two Lawrence residents has scheduled a rally and other events later this month at the Capitol to bring attention to the American Legislative Exchange Council and its ties to Gov. Sam Brownback, Secretary of State Kris Kobach and many legislators.
Douglas County legislators differed sharply over school finance, taxes, concealed carry and election law Saturday, mirroring the contentious debates dominating the 2012 legislative session.
Gov. Sam Brownback appointed a social worker and former legislator Friday as secretary of the state's largest social services agency and outlined a plan to reorganize it and two other departments as part of a larger effort to overhaul the state's Medicaid program.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.
