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Records show Kansas election officials refused call to police gender markers on voter files (opens the original)
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TOPEKA — A Kansas Republican Party officer called the Secretary of State’s Office in July to ask why a new state law that regulates gender markers wasn’t being applied to the voter registration of a transgender Democrat running for a Kansas House seat. Senior election officials disagreed with his interpretation of Senate Bill 244, the new law that requires bathroom use and gender markers on government documents to align with an individual’s sex assigned at birth. Clay Barker, general counsel for
Even with government assistance, many Texas families can't find affordable childcare options (opens the original)
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Leslie Rodriguez picks up her four-month-old son, Adriel, out of his bouncer in the nursery at First Presbyterian Church of Dallas' Day School. He had a fever earlier in the day, so she wanted to check on him. After a quick squeeze, Rodriguez heads back to her own classroom, where she teaches one-year-olds. For now, the school is allowing Rodriguez to bring her baby to work for free while she waits to find out whether she'll qualify for federal childcare assistance. "I was already thinking, 'Oh,
Workers labor in record-breaking heat, but Oklahoma has no state laws providing heat safety standards (opens the original)
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Integrity Safety Owner Joel Viezcas started his company three years ago. He is a safety consultant for contractors developing safety plans for potential workplace hazards, such as heat. He said he has seen the dangers extreme heat can pose for workers exposed to high temperatures. "We have seen illnesses, stress, and even some strokes, which can easily lead to death," Viezcas said. "(Employees) deplete themselves from the minerals, the vitamins, all the electrolytes that we need to function. Bec
Kansas Democrats face political consequences for embracing public uprising against data centers (opens the original)
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TOPEKA — Rep. Brooklynne Mosley never gets a clear answer when she asks proponents of data centers how closely they want to live near one. That’s because “everyone thinks it’s going to be in someone else’s backyard,” she said. Across the state, fights are erupting in communities where residents’ concerns about water and electricity usage, noise and air pollution, and the threat of artificial intelligence are met with promises of construction jobs and lucrative property tax collections. Mosley, a
3 years after police raid on Kansas newspaper, reporter settles lawsuit for $850,000 (opens the original)
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Phyllis Zorn, the reporter whose acts of journalism served as an excuse for the August 2023 police raid of the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion to settle her federal lawsuit over the raid. Attorneys for Zorn and the city filed a motion Tuesday, exactly three years after the raid, to dismiss the case. Kansas Reflector reviewed a copy of the settlement agreement, which has not been entered into the court record. Zorn said her long national nightmare is over. "I've al
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