House panel adds slots vote to sports wagering bill
A new sports wagering bill emerged from a House committee Friday with a provison authorizing a vote for slot machines in Sedgwick County.
The House...
BREAKING: State broadband director departs for private sector
Regarded as state government's leading expert on deployment of high-speed internet service, Stanley Adams is stepping down as the director of the state's Office...
Automated delivery legislation in doubt
First there was Scout.
Weighing in at about 100 pounds and under 3 feet tall.
Then there was Roxo.
Weighing in at about about 450 pounds and...
Sports wagering: How much tax is enough?
Kansas would impose among the highest taxes on sports wagering in the country under one version of expanded gambling legislation now under consideration.
The House...
Missouri, Kansas approaching collision over border war?
Kansas and Missouri appear to be heading toward a collision over an agreement that would end the practice of businesses using tax breaks to...
Auditors recommend changes in angel investor program
Auditors are urging lawmakers to tweak an economic development program for small, innovative startup companies after finding instances where businesses left Kansas earlier than...
UPDATED: Incentives for repopulating rural Kansas failing, report says
(Updated to reflect that no rural opportunity zone county had an population increase bigger than 2.5%)
Almost a decade ago, experts warned that using tax...
New sports-betting bill could expand lottery online
The debate over sports betting started fresh this week, but with a new wrinkle that possibly expands the Kansas Lottery into online sales.
Senators started...
Little oversight of development funds, audit says
The state provides little supervision over how millions of dollars in economic development funds are spent, a new audit says.
State auditors on Wednesday reported...
New battle shaping up between banks and credit unions
(Note: This reporter's wife is a human resource officer with a bank headquartered in Missouri with branches in Kansas.)
As this legislative session draws to...
