The big news last week was that the Kansas Legislature, both the House and the Senate, sent a tax reform bill to the Governor's desk. The next step is for the Governor to sign it, to veto it, or to not sign it and let it become law anyway. This is one step towards righting the ship in Kansas: remaining are closing this year's revenue gap (roughly $340 million) and passing a good school finance plan.

This is our testimony in favor of HB 2270, a school finance plan that includes early childhood education, is tied to CPI, and successfully handles different district needs. You can download our testimony here.

This is testimony we delivered today opposing SB 157 and SB 158, bills to enforce collaboration with ICE immigration orders. You can download our testimony here.

This is the testimony we are entering in support of SCR 1604, a resolution to lower the sales tax on food and food ingredients, and include it in the Kansas Constitution. You can download a copy of our testimony here.

If you've been paying even the slightest attention to politics in the past few months, you're dizzy from your head spinning so much. Between national and local news, broad challenges to civil and human rights, pointed attacks on women's health or transgender children, and a confusing array of competing proposals to fix Kansas, it can be overwhelming. Let us try to sort it out for you.

What just happened?

In a surprise move that feels more than a little bitter, the Kansas Senate has adjourned today without working any of the bills we discussed previously.

Get ready for some politics.

Starting at 8 am today, the first salvo in the Kansas budget fight will be fired. It’s… complicated, but here is the gist.

This week at the Kansas Legislature, the rubber is finally hitting the road, though there's a giant elephant in the room that might derail everything.

This is the written testimony we are delivering at the hearing on HB 2064 in Topeka on Tuesday, February 7. We are supporting the expansion of KanCare to cover 150,000 more Kansans. You can download our testimony here.

This is the written testimony we are delivering at the hearing on HB 2237 in Topeka on Tuesday, February 7. We are supporting the non-partisan Rise Up tax plan. You can download our testimony here.