Tim Carpenter

1 week ago | kansasreflector.com | Tim Carpenter

TOPEKA — Republican U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann of Kansas said Friday the nation ought to get behind President Donald Trump’s ultimate decision on whether to authorize military strikes to interrupt Iran’s development of nuclear weapons. The Trump administration said a determination could be made within two weeks about deployment of sophisticated weapons aimed at dismantling Iran’s nuclear sites. Meanwhile, Israel and Iran continued to exchange barrages in a weeklong shooting conflict.

1 week ago | hastingstribune.com | Tim Carpenter

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach says in a nonbinding opinion the Kansas Department of Revenue improperly shared proceeds from a 1% sales tax approved by Morton County in 2015 with three municipalities. Kobach urged the revenue department to transfer revenue from the sales tax exclusively to the county, and as of this month the state agency will comply with the recommendation.

1 week ago | kansasreflector.com | Tim Carpenter

TOPEKA — Attorney General Kris Kobach objected to the Kansas Department of Revenue’s decision to divide proceeds from Morton County’s 1% sales tax among the county and municipalities after voters a decade ago passed a flawed resolution that didn’t specifically tie the revenue to health care. In 2024, the Morton County Commission learned the Department of Revenue had since 2015 — nine years — spread revenue from the countywide 1% sales tax to three cities as well as the county.

1 week ago | kansasreflector.com | Tim Carpenter

TOPEKA — The co-author of a national assessment of challenges faced by local election administrators focused on the failure of some Kansas counties to match rising costs of voting technology and election staff with budgets heavily reliant on property tax revenue.

1 week ago | hastingstribune.com | Tim Carpenter

By Tim Carpenter U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, urged the U.S. Department of Commerce to remedy President Donald Trump's "indiscriminate" personnel cuts at the National Weather Service that compromised the ability of the Goodland, Kansas, station to provide forecasting services 24/7. (Kansas Reflector screen capture of NWS forecast site)