States that restrict abortion access have also put harsh anti-trans laws on the books that threaten people’s lives.
Kansas
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In Kansas, Abortion Is on the Ballot Tomorrow
Younger voters are mobilizing to protect abortion rights ahead of the Kansas primary.
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Notes From the Front Lines
Indivisible Kansas City came to join many causes, especially voting rights and Medicaid expansion, where newly engaged, civically minded people could find a toehold for their energy.
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Progressive Challenges and Conservative Last Stands in Today’s Elections
A guide to today’s biggest primaries in Missouri, Washington, Michigan, Arizona, and Kansas
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Riding for Free in Kansas City
Big cities have shunned free public transit. Now, KC’s free-fares push may provide transit systems across the country with a ‘how-to’ guide.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Kansas and Missouri Call a Truce in Corporate-Welfare Border War
Governments in both states have wooed Kansas City–area businesses with tax breaks to relocate across state lines. Now they’re partnering to stop the giveaways.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Kansas Takes a Different Direction on Abortion Rights
In a surprise decision, the state supreme court upholds a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Privatizing Health Care for Veterans Doesn’t Add Up
Medicaid privatization in Kansas and Iowa show why outsourcing the VA would have tragic, even fatal, consequences.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Good Riddance, Sam Brownback
The governor may be (finally) leaving Kansas, but his trickle-down legacy has saddled us all.
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Kansas Redux: Illinois Legislature Overrides Governor’s Austerity Politics
It’s becoming increasingly clear that conservative governors trying to push trickle-down tax cuts for the rich and austerity for everyone else will, eventually, face a political backlash. Once again, a bipartisan coalition of fed-up legislators has overridden their intransigent governor’s veto to keep their state from driving off the cliff. On Thursday, Illinois Republicans joined […]
