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De Soto Panasonic battery plant nearing 50% production, second wing underway | #ksleg via @crazeywriter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/briefs/de-so...
De Soto Panasonic battery plant nearing 50% production, second wing underway • Kansas Reflector
Panasonic’s Kansas battery plant will ramp up to 50% of its production capacity in the next few months, a company executive said Monday.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Kansas insurance commissioner blends personal experience, advocacy on breast cancer bill | #ksleg via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2026/02/03/k...
Kansas insurance commissioner blends personal experience, advocacy on breast cancer bill • Kansas Reflector
A Kansas Senate committee gathers testimony on a bill blocking insurance companies from shifting costs to women who need special tests for breast cancer.
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February 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Kansas insurance commissioner blends personal experience, advocacy on breast cancer bill | #ksleg via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2026/02/03/k...
Opinion by Tara Wallace: Want to ban student cellphone use in Kansas? Take a moment to look at yourself first. #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2026/02/03/w...
Want to ban student cellphone use in Kansas? Take a moment to look at yourself first. • Kansas Reflector
A true crisis requires a shared and thoughtful understanding of the primary issue, and more often than not, that understanding is missing.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Opinion by Tara Wallace: Want to ban student cellphone use in Kansas? Take a moment to look at yourself first. #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2026/02/03/w...
Noem: Body cameras to be deployed to immigration agents, starting in Minneapolis | via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ksleg
Noem: Body cameras to be deployed to immigration agents, starting in Minneapolis • Kansas Reflector
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that body cameras would be given to federal immigration agents across the country.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Noem: Body cameras to be deployed to immigration agents, starting in Minneapolis | via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ksleg
Trump urges US House to avert ‘another long, pointless and destructive’ shutdown | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social and @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ksleg
Trump urges US House to avert ‘another long, pointless and destructive’ shutdown • Kansas Reflector
The U.S. House is expected to vote as soon as Tuesday on the government funding package that will end the ongoing partial government shutdown.
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February 2, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Trump urges US House to avert ‘another long, pointless and destructive’ shutdown | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social and @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas bill eliminates mail-in ballots if court strikes down signature verification law | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas bill eliminates mail-in ballots if court strikes down signature verification law • Kansas Reflector
A Senate bill endorsed by the Kansas Secretary of State's Office would end advanced voting by mail if a court strikes down state law requiring election officials to verify a voter's signature.
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February 2, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Kansas bill eliminates mail-in ballots if court strikes down signature verification law | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas bill would require kindergarteners to be potty trained before starting school | via @gracefromkansas.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas bill would require kindergarteners to be potty trained before starting school • Kansas Reflector
Kansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would require kindergarteners to be potty trained before starting school, pulling the decision-making power about how to handle those students away from sc...
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February 2, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Kansas bill would require kindergarteners to be potty trained before starting school | via @gracefromkansas.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas Board of Regents CEO stepping down after decade leading higher education system | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas Board of Regents CEO stepping down after decade leading higher education system • Kansas Reflector
The president and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents intends to resign this summer after leading higher education board for the past decade.
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February 2, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Kansas Board of Regents CEO stepping down after decade leading higher education system | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
Changes coming to Kansas educational savings plans lower costs, increase options | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg
Changes coming to Kansas educational savings plans lower costs, increase options • Kansas Reflector
Participants in Kansas’ Learning Quest 529 savings plans will find new investment options and lower fees beginning in March.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Changes coming to Kansas educational savings plans lower costs, increase options | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: ‘Wicked laws passed in our land’: Dueling prayers encapsulate Kansas Legislature’s nauseating week #ksleg
'Wicked laws passed in our land': Dueling prayers encapsulate Kansas Legislature's nauseating week • Kansas Reflector
Gather round, Reflector readers, and allow me to tell you all a tale of two prayers at the Kansas Legislature.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: ‘Wicked laws passed in our land’: Dueling prayers encapsulate Kansas Legislature’s nauseating week #ksleg
House Republican forces hearing, despite no support, on restrictions for delivering advance ballots | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg
House Republican forces hearing, despite no support, on restrictions for delivering advance ballots • Kansas Reflector
House Democrats heckled Leavenworth Republican Rep. Pat Proctor's latest idea to undermine advance voting after he forced a hearing on a bill that nobody was willing to support.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:17 AM
House Republican forces hearing, despite no support, on restrictions for delivering advance ballots | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg
Opinion from @maxmccoy.com: As a nation, we face a decisive moment. Trust the journalists who witness tyranny at street level. #ksleg
As a nation, we face a decisive moment. Trust the journalists who witness tyranny at street level. • Kansas Reflector
Amid the stream of coverage of state-sponsored violence you may have missed the stories of the journalists arrested, detained or roughed up.
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February 1, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Opinion from @maxmccoy.com: As a nation, we face a decisive moment. Trust the journalists who witness tyranny at street level. #ksleg
Crime rates fell across US cities in 2025 | via Amanda Watford #ksleg
Crime rates fell across US cities in 2025 • Kansas Reflector
Crime continued to decline in 2025, with homicides down 21% from 2024 and 44% from a peak in 2021, according to a new analysis of crime trends in 40 large U.S. cities released by the nonpartisan think...
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February 1, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Crime rates fell across US cities in 2025 | via Amanda Watford #ksleg
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Statehouse leaders twist rules to abuse Kansans in grotesque spectacle of prejudice #ksleg
Statehouse leaders twist rules to abuse Kansans in grotesque spectacle of prejudice • Kansas Reflector
Without a single public hearing, overwhelming majorities of Republicans in the House and Senate voted to force transgender Kansans.
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January 31, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Statehouse leaders twist rules to abuse Kansans in grotesque spectacle of prejudice #ksleg
Six Kansas GOP candidates for governor toss haymakers in first debate, find unity on key issues | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
Six Kansas GOP candidates for governor toss haymakers in first debate, find unity on key issues • Kansas Reflector
Kansas GOP candidates for governor square off in attempt to find separation from rivals, but join hands on abortion, marijuana and Supreme Court justices.
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January 31, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Six Kansas GOP candidates for governor toss haymakers in first debate, find unity on key issues | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
DOJ releases 3 million pages of Epstein files, taking in 180,000 images and 2,000 videos | via Shauneen Miranda #ksleg
DOJ releases 3 million pages of Epstein files, taking in 180,000 images and 2,000 videos • Kansas Reflector
The U.S. Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents Friday related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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January 31, 2026 at 2:23 AM
DOJ releases 3 million pages of Epstein files, taking in 180,000 images and 2,000 videos | via Shauneen Miranda #ksleg
US Senate OKs spending deal, but partial shutdown still set to begin at midnight | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social and @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ksleg
US Senate OKs spending deal, but partial shutdown still set to begin at midnight • Kansas Reflector
The federal government hurtled Friday toward a partial shutdown this weekend, even though Senate Democrats and President Donald Trump reached a deal that allows lawmakers more time to negotiate new co...
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January 31, 2026 at 12:57 AM
US Senate OKs spending deal, but partial shutdown still set to begin at midnight | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social and @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ksleg
Two Kansas men charged with threatening congresswoman from Illinois, ICE agents | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg
Two Kansas men charged with threatening congresswoman from Illinois, ICE agents • Kansas Reflector
A federal grand jury charged two Kansas men for making threats against public officials in two unrelated cases.
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January 30, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Two Kansas men charged with threatening congresswoman from Illinois, ICE agents | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas lawmakers revisit plan to issue $60 fine for cellphone use in school and work zones | via @gracefromkansas.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas lawmakers revisit plan to issue $60 fine for cellphone use in school and work zones • Kansas Reflector
More than a decade after a texting-and-driving accident in a construction zone left her hospitalized for a month, Lawrence resident Nicole Allensworth regularly appears at the Statehouse to advocate f...
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January 30, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Kansas lawmakers revisit plan to issue $60 fine for cellphone use in school and work zones | via @gracefromkansas.bsky.social #ksleg
Appeals court affirms Kansas Highway Patrol traffic stops violate motorists’ constitutional rights | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
Appeals court affirms Kansas Highway Patrol traffic stops violate motorists' constitutional rights • Kansas Reflector
The U.S. Court of Appeals offers a split decision in a Kansas case involving unconstitutional traffic stop practices of Kansas Highway Patrol troopers
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January 30, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Appeals court affirms Kansas Highway Patrol traffic stops violate motorists’ constitutional rights | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas schools could be required to verify family income for every student receiving free lunch | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas schools could be required to verify family income for every student receiving free lunch • Kansas Reflector
Current federal law requires schools to verify free and reduced lunch eligibility for 3% of recipients, but a proposed bill would require them to verify every student.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Kansas schools could be required to verify family income for every student receiving free lunch | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg
Opinion from @ericthomasphoto.bsky.social: Taylor Swift embodies female economic power in new book by KU professor #ksleg
Taylor Swift embodies female economic power in new book by KU professor • Kansas Reflector
Misty Heggeness released “Swiftynomics,” a book explaining how female economic power radiates from the music star.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Opinion from @ericthomasphoto.bsky.social: Taylor Swift embodies female economic power in new book by KU professor #ksleg
Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro says he’s readying for federal immigration crackdown | via @ashleymurray.bsky.social #ksleg
Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro says he’s readying for federal immigration crackdown • Kansas Reflector
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is preparing a response should the Trump administration surge immigration agents into the commonwealth.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro says he’s readying for federal immigration crackdown | via @ashleymurray.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas Democrats tout bill requiring ICE to display IDs, shed masks and forego warrantless searches | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas Democrats tout bill requiring ICE to display IDs, shed masks and forego warrantless searches • Kansas Reflector
A coalition of Kansas House Democrats urged passage of a bill Thursday requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operating in Kansas to forego warrantless raids, undergo the equivalent...
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January 29, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Kansas Democrats tout bill requiring ICE to display IDs, shed masks and forego warrantless searches | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas House bill would push state to recycle wastewater into tap water | via @gracefromkansas.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas House bill would push state to recycle wastewater into tap water • Kansas Reflector
A proposed House Bill would require the state health secretary to lay out guidelines for the recycling and use of treated wastewater, meaning the water that goes through toilets and showers could — af...
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January 29, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Kansas House bill would push state to recycle wastewater into tap water | via @gracefromkansas.bsky.social #ksleg