The state pension plan for thousands of Kansas workers has seen some ups and downs in the last year. As Stephen Koranda of the Kansas News Service reports, that caused the long-term deficit for the plan called KPERS to grow.
The Sedgwick County Republican Party is asking a state legislator to resign after reports he was behind a recent video targeting Wichita mayoral candidate Brandon Whipple.
A small group of Missouri senators met Monday for several hours to address the issue of gun violence throughout the state.
As a bipartisan contingent of policymakers raise alarm about vaping, one lawmaker believes that the product should be treated like cigarettes. St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum has more from state Rep. Donna Baringer’s Politically Speaking interview.