On the one hand, voters delivered a primary election victory for nearly two-decade-long state Sen. Marci Francisco, but voters rejected the Kansas House minority leader as he tried to win a new state Senate seat that includes parts of Lawrence...
Opinion: Statehouse substance vs. signaling Dec 13, 2024 @ 11:10am- Russell Arben Fox Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson recently affirmed that, with the Republican legislative majority even stronger after the 2024 elections, the leadership will bring back the push to ban transgender surgery on ...
“To me it’s important that the State Board of Education is assuring that we have rigor in the classroom,” said state Senate Education Committee Chair Molly Baumgardner, another Kansas City-area Republican. Baumgardner said that while the Legislature tackles education...
Rep. John Curtis (R-Provo), former state House Speaker Brad Wilson, and businessman and podcast host Jason Walton have already qualified for the US Senate Republican primary ballot via petition signatures. Therefore, regardless of whether these men receive the 40 percent delegate support necessary ...
Kansas state Sen. Dennis Pyle, left, R-Hiawatha, confers with Sen. Brenda Dietrich, R-Topeka, during the Senate session, Friday, April 5, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Pyle supports a bill to make it a crime to coerce someone into having an abortion, while Dietrich passed ...
Meanwhile, both parties locked in their nominees for Michigan’s critical Senate race, and the outcomes of Republican primary contests are likely to determine Missouri’s next governor and attorney general. In battleground House districts, the fields were set for competitive fall contests,...
The role of the Senate was conceived by the Founding Fathers as a check on the popularly elected House of Representatives. Thus, each state, regardless of size or population, is equally represented. Further, until the Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution (1913), election to the Senate was...
Bob Dole. The state now has a sizable Democratic minority, a growing independent vote, and a small Libertarian contingent. The first legislature, in 1861, gave women the right to vote in school elections. In 1887 women’s suffrage was extended to city and bond elections, and in that year ...
Patty Murray and Republican Tiffany Smiley will advance to the November election in Washington’s Senate race, CNN projects. The state uses a “top two” primary system where candidates of all parties appear on the same ballot and the top two finishers advance to the genera...
Patty Murray and Republican Tiffany Smiley will advance to the November election in Washington’s Senate race, CNN projects. The state uses a “top two” primary system where candidates of all parties appear on the same ballot and the top two finishers advance to the gener...