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Kansan returns to the Catholic Church as the state’s first woman priest | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansan returns to the Catholic Church as the state's first woman priest • Kansas Reflector
Tina Thompson found a different way to be Catholic. She was ordained in November as a Roman Catholic Woman Priest, an international group that has tethered itself to the Catholic church but isn’t offi...
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December 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Kansan returns to the Catholic Church as the state’s first woman priest | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg
Flint Hills rancher works to restore biodiversity of imperiled Kansas tallgrass prairie ecosystems | via Erin Socha #ksleg
Flint Hills rancher works to restore biodiversity of imperiled Kansas tallgrass prairie ecosystems • Kansas Reflector
Cattle ranchers like Bill Sproul have translated this conservationist philosophy into land management by adopting practices collectively known as “regenerative grazing.”
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December 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Flint Hills rancher works to restore biodiversity of imperiled Kansas tallgrass prairie ecosystems | via Erin Socha #ksleg
Woody encroachment threatens Kansas’ grasslands, but cattle ranchers are fighting back | via Erin Socha #ksleg
Woody encroachment threatens Kansas’ grasslands, but cattle ranchers are fighting back • Kansas Reflector
Prairie is being converted to forest as trees expand across the landscape, at the expense of grassland species. Ranchers, conservationists and ecologists in Kansas have been documenting this shift for...
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December 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Woody encroachment threatens Kansas’ grasslands, but cattle ranchers are fighting back | via Erin Socha #ksleg
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Happy holidays, one and all, as Emporia State’s worst president ever finally leaves the building #ksleg
Happy holidays, one and all, as Emporia State's worst president ever finally leaves the building • Kansas Reflector
President Ken Hush gave Emporia State University the best Christmas present possible in 2025. He quit after four years.
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December 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Happy holidays, one and all, as Emporia State’s worst president ever finally leaves the building #ksleg
GOP redistricting could backfire as urban, immigrant areas turn back to Democrats | via @timhenderson.bsky.social #ksleg
GOP redistricting could backfire as urban, immigrant areas turn back to Democrats • Kansas Reflector
GOP reversals in this year’s elections, especially in some urban and immigrant communities, are setting off alarm bells for Republicans using redistricting to try to keep control of Congress in next y...
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December 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
GOP redistricting could backfire as urban, immigrant areas turn back to Democrats | via @timhenderson.bsky.social #ksleg
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Counting sheep on the way to enlightenment: Why I nap, and why you should too #ksleg
Counting sheep on the way to enlightenment: Why I nap, and why you should too • Kansas Reflector
Naps get a bad rap in our society, probably because they connote laziness or idleness. But brief snoozes in fact do the opposite.
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December 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Counting sheep on the way to enlightenment: Why I nap, and why you should too #ksleg
Deportations, tariffs, court clashes, record shutdown mark a historic year in Washington, D.C. | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ksleg
Deportations, tariffs, court clashes, record shutdown mark a historic year in Washington, D.C. • Kansas Reflector
This year produced a seemingly endless array of history-making events and nearly constant change to immigration policy, tariffs, the Education Department and federal health care programs.
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December 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Deportations, tariffs, court clashes, record shutdown mark a historic year in Washington, D.C. | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ksleg
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Folding, organizing, stacking: Laundry chores underpin our childhoods, working lives #ksleg
Folding, organizing, stacking: Laundry chores underpin our childhoods, working lives • Kansas Reflector
What does it mean to fold a dryer’s full of clothes? That might seem like a question of no import. But if you ponder it, I suspect your mind will eventually wander back to someone in your family. Huma...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Folding, organizing, stacking: Laundry chores underpin our childhoods, working lives #ksleg
Documentary about police raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance Film Festival | via Maya Smith #ksleg
Documentary about police raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance Film Festival • Kansas Reflector
A documentary about the police raid of the Marion County Record is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2026, more than two years after law enforcement stormed the newspaper office, ...
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December 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Documentary about police raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance Film Festival | via Maya Smith #ksleg
As Supreme Court pulls back on gerrymandering, state courts may decide fate of maps | via @jonshorman.bsky.social #ksleg
As Supreme Court pulls back on gerrymandering, state courts may decide fate of maps • Kansas Reflector
As some states engage in an extraordinary redraw of congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, state courts may decide the fate of the new maps.
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December 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
As Supreme Court pulls back on gerrymandering, state courts may decide fate of maps | via @jonshorman.bsky.social #ksleg
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Before today’s Christmas festivities, a few words in defense of Ebenezer Scrooge #ksleg
Before today's Christmas festivities, a few words in defense of Ebenezer Scrooge • Kansas Reflector
Sometimes, you don't want to be merry. Sometimes, you don't want to celebrate with your coworkers or family on Christmas.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Before today’s Christmas festivities, a few words in defense of Ebenezer Scrooge #ksleg
NY federal officials submit 1 million more pages of Epstein files | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ksleg
NY federal officials submit 1 million more pages of Epstein files • Kansas Reflector
Federal prosecutors have sent a million more pages related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to the Department of Justice, which plans to release them in the coming weeks, officials said Wednes...
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December 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
NY federal officials submit 1 million more pages of Epstein files | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas governor’s legislative priorities in 2026 center on budget, water and children | #ksleg via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/24/k...
Kansas governor's legislative priorities in 2026 center on budget, water and children • Kansas Reflector
Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat entering her last year in office, is concentrating on shaping a new state budget, water policy and early-childhood development.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Kansas governor’s legislative priorities in 2026 center on budget, water and children | #ksleg via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/24/k...
As more states pass proof of citizenship laws, report points to Kansas as cautionary tale | #ksleg via @anna-writes.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/24/a...
As more states pass proof of citizenship laws, report points to Kansas as cautionary tale • Kansas Reflector
Kansas’ failed proof of citizenship law could serve as a cautionary tale for Congress and other states just beginning to craft similar voting restrictions, a report found.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
As more states pass proof of citizenship laws, report points to Kansas as cautionary tale | #ksleg via @anna-writes.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/24/a...
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social: This winter, wallow in the joy of reading — and the guilt that you’re not reading better books #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/24/t...
This winter, wallow in the joy of reading — and the guilt that you're not reading better books • Kansas Reflector
I want to read other things. Yet even a nonfiction book can look like a daunting obstacle when the onrush of daily content piles up.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social: This winter, wallow in the joy of reading — and the guilt that you’re not reading better books #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/24/t...
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Students shouldn't lose their rights when arriving at school.
And parents shouldn't have to worry that their child will be questioned by the police without their knowledge.
Our Executive Director Lauren Bonds on why Kansas lacks sufficient Fourth Amendment protections for these types of cases.
And parents shouldn't have to worry that their child will be questioned by the police without their knowledge.
Our Executive Director Lauren Bonds on why Kansas lacks sufficient Fourth Amendment protections for these types of cases.
Opinion by Mark McCormick: Topeka police seize student phones, demand passcodes, without telling families. Parents cry foul. #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/t...
Topeka police seize student phones, demand passcodes, without telling families. Parents cry foul. • Kansas Reflector
When police appeared at Topeka High with a warrant, they had students pulled from class, seized their phones and demanded the passcode.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Students shouldn't lose their rights when arriving at school.
And parents shouldn't have to worry that their child will be questioned by the police without their knowledge.
Our Executive Director Lauren Bonds on why Kansas lacks sufficient Fourth Amendment protections for these types of cases.
And parents shouldn't have to worry that their child will be questioned by the police without their knowledge.
Our Executive Director Lauren Bonds on why Kansas lacks sufficient Fourth Amendment protections for these types of cases.
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In-depth report from @crazeywriter.bsky.social: Social workers nationwide directed furious complaints toward their national association, demanding accountability, transparency and an external review of finances in the wake of a structural realignment #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/23/s...
Social workers question spending, standards and 'harmful dynamics' at national association • Kansas Reflector
Social workers nationwide directed furious complaints toward their national association, demanding accountability, transparency.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In-depth report from @crazeywriter.bsky.social: Social workers nationwide directed furious complaints toward their national association, demanding accountability, transparency and an external review of finances in the wake of a structural realignment #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/23/s...
Social workers question spending, standards and ‘harmful dynamics’ at national association | #ksleg via @crazeywriter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/23/s...
Social workers question spending, standards and 'harmful dynamics' at national association • Kansas Reflector
Social workers nationwide directed furious complaints toward their national association, demanding accountability, transparency.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Social workers question spending, standards and ‘harmful dynamics’ at national association | #ksleg via @crazeywriter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/23/s...
Discs of connection: Basic buttons link past to present through the haze of memory | Opinion by @claywires.bsky.social #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/23/d...
Discs of connection: Basic buttons link past to present through the haze of memory • Kansas Reflector
I suspect that we all have primordial memories of fumbling with buttons on a shirt or a coat or a pair of pants.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Discs of connection: Basic buttons link past to present through the haze of memory | Opinion by @claywires.bsky.social #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/23/d...
Trump canceled temporary legal status for more than 1.5 million immigrants in 2025 | #ksleg via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/r...
Trump canceled temporary legal status for more than 1.5 million immigrants in 2025 • Kansas Reflector
Since Inauguration Day, more than 1.5 million immigrants have either lost or will lose their temporary legal status, including their work authorizations and deportation protections, due to President D...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Trump canceled temporary legal status for more than 1.5 million immigrants in 2025 | #ksleg via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/r...
Final update: Chiefs moving to Kansas with $3.3 billion plan for domed stadium, training facility #ksleg via @crazeywriter.bsky.social and @anna-writes.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/c...
Chiefs moving to Kansas with $3.3 billion plan for domed stadium, training facility • Kansas Reflector
Kansas legislative leadership voted unanimously Monday to issue STAR bonds to build a football stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs, following a short meeting behind closed doors.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Final update: Chiefs moving to Kansas with $3.3 billion plan for domed stadium, training facility #ksleg via @crazeywriter.bsky.social and @anna-writes.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/c...
Gov. Laura Kelly, in announcing the Chiefs are moving to Kansas, says: "Kansas is not a flyover state. We are a touchdown state." #ksleg via @anna-writes.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Gov. Laura Kelly, in announcing the Chiefs are moving to Kansas, says: "Kansas is not a flyover state. We are a touchdown state." #ksleg via @anna-writes.bsky.social
‘Painful day’: Missouri officials react the Chiefs announcing move to Kansas | #ksleg via @jasonhancock.bsky.social and @jonshorman.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/r...
‘Painful day’: Missouri officials react the Chiefs announcing move to Kansas • Kansas Reflector
Missouri learned Monday that the Kansas City Chiefs are moving across the state line to Kansas.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
‘Painful day’: Missouri officials react the Chiefs announcing move to Kansas | #ksleg via @jasonhancock.bsky.social and @jonshorman.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/r...
The Kansas City Chiefs are moving to Kansas with a deal to use taxpayer funding to help build a domed stadium, entertainment district, new team headquarters and a training facility, Kansas officials announced Monday #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/k...
Kansas lures Chiefs across state lines with offer to use STAR bonds to build new stadium • Kansas Reflector
Kansas legislative leadership voted unanimously Monday to issue STAR bonds to build a football stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs, following a short meeting behind closed doors.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The Kansas City Chiefs are moving to Kansas with a deal to use taxpayer funding to help build a domed stadium, entertainment district, new team headquarters and a training facility, Kansas officials announced Monday #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/k...
Senate President Ty Masterson, an Andover Republican, says “Kansas won the Super Bowl.”
“The overall fan experience will be greatly improved with this new stadium: better seats, enhanced tailgating, and smoother traffic flow to and from games.”
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“The overall fan experience will be greatly improved with this new stadium: better seats, enhanced tailgating, and smoother traffic flow to and from games.”
#ksleg
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Kansas lures Chiefs across state lines with offer to use STAR bonds to build new stadium • Kansas Reflector
Kansas legislative leadership voted unanimously Monday to issue STAR bonds to build a football stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs, following a short meeting behind closed doors.
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December 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Senate President Ty Masterson, an Andover Republican, says “Kansas won the Super Bowl.”
“The overall fan experience will be greatly improved with this new stadium: better seats, enhanced tailgating, and smoother traffic flow to and from games.”
#ksleg
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“The overall fan experience will be greatly improved with this new stadium: better seats, enhanced tailgating, and smoother traffic flow to and from games.”
#ksleg
kansasreflector.com/2025/12/22/k...