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Sebelius: State should act quickly to expand Medicaid By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
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Topeka — Former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Monday that Kansas lawmakers will have to act quickly if they hope to expand Medicaid under the
Affordable Care Act before Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration dismantle the program. Sebelius, who served as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary during President Barack Obama’s first term, was one of the
architects of the health care law popularly known as Obamacare. She was in Topeka Monday to attend swearing-in ceremonies for the Kansas Supreme Court and Kansas Court of Appeals, and during an interview with the
Lawrence Journal-World, she was asked whether Kansas had already waited too long to take advantage of the law. “It’s hard to tell until we know exactly what Congress is proposing, and over what sort of period of
time,” Sebelius said. “Right now as we speak, the new North Carolina governor (Democrat Roy Cooper) is moving to expand Medicaid. So theoretically if they wanted to move quickly and
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KU expert discusses Despite daunting tasks outgoing ahead, incoming president’s legislators rhetorical hopeful for cooperation, legacy bipartisanship in 2017
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— The 2017 legislative session in Kansas officially got underway Monday with the swearing-in of all 165 legislators who now face the daunting challenge of closing a massive budget gap and crafting a new school finance formula that will satisfy the Kansas Supreme Court. Despite those challenges, though, many lawmakers appeared to opeka
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Lists top 12 most memorable speeches By Sara Shepherd
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ABOVE: REPS. MARVIN KLEEB, R-OVERLAND PARK; Boog Highberger, D-Lawrence; Bill Sutton, R-Gardner; Jeff Pittman, R-Leavenworth; and Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, are sworn in to new terms in the Kansas House as the 2017 session gets underway Monday. RIGHT: Sens. Roger Pyle, R-Hiawatha; Marci Francisco, D-Lawrence; Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City; David Haley, D-Kansas City; and Steve Fitzgerald, R-Leavenworth, take their oaths for new terms.
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University of Kansas professor of communication studies Robert “Robin” Rowland has had his eye — or rather his ear — on President Barack Obama since 2004. Obama, then a state senator, gave a “transformational” speech at that year’s Democratic National Convention in which he said there were no red states or blue states, just the United States of America, Rowland said. Rowland said eloquently continuing that theme in his public speeches helped Obama win the presiRowland dency and continued throughout his eight years in office. > OBAMA, 6A
Outgoing mayor Amyx highlights public trust in State of the City address By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com
With controversy marking the path of the Lawrence City Commission in recent years, the guiding words for outgoing mayor Mike Amyx have been public trust. “I cannot express how impactful these two words are for me and our entire City Commission,” Amyx said
Monday as part of the annual State of the City address. “We were tasked with gathering together during a crisis and working to regain the public trust of our community.” Amyx took over the position after former mayor Jeremy Farmer resigned from the commission amid allegations of embezzlement in August 2015. Farmer later pleaded guilty to one count
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