April 2025

Leaked emails to efficiency portal don't align with GOP

TOPEKA — A “defeated” single mother seeking health coverage, a disabled Navy veteran who wants to move to Kansas but can’t afford the taxes, and a former state internal auditor fed up with corruption and bureaucracy were among the suggestions submitted to Kansas’ GOP-led Senate Committee on Government Efficiency. The majority of submissions to the committee’s public suggestion portal, which debuted Jan.

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Building for art's sake

Under the feet of visitors to the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, in the basement, are suspended rails that carry 80 framed screens of heavy wire. The panels are 7 feet tall, most of them 12 feet long, and placed just far enough apart, half a foot center to center, for each side to carry framed paintings.

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