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Leavenworth County Commission agenda and minutes

The Leavenworth County Commission meets at 9 a.m. each Wednesday at the Leavenworth County Courthouse, 300 Walnut St., Suite 225. Meetings also are livestreamed on the county’s YouTube page. Anyone wanting to watch the meeting after it takes place can also watch archived meetings at any ...

Johnson: Resolving tax burden No. 1 priority during legislative session

With the start of the 2024 Kansas legislative session, no issue is more important than resolving the tax burden currently imposed on the citizens of the state. There will be many ideas proposed, some good, some not so good. However, when the session concludes there must be a fair and ...

Weather, holiday move meetings to different dates

Tonganoxie USD 464 school board and Tonganoxie City Council were scheduled to have meetings Tuesday night, but there is another change. The school board originally was to meet on Jan. 8, but inclement weather forced postponement. The meeting still was set to take place as of The ...

Tonganoxie City Council, USD 464 school board to both have meetings Tuesday

Tonganoxie City Council and Tonganoxie USD 464 will meet on the same night next week. Tonganoxie USD 464 school board members will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the district’s administrative center, 300 E. U.S. Highway 24-40, while the city council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at council ...

Kansas Supreme Court reappoints 29 chief judges

The Kansas Supreme Court reappointed chief judges in 29 judicial districts for two-year terms that begin Jan. 1 and end Dec. 31, 2025. Each of Kansas’ 31 judicial districts has a chief judge who, in addition to their judicial responsibilities, has general control over case assignments ...

Tonganoxie school board, city council have meetings

Tonganoxie City Council and Tonganoxie USD 464 had meetings Monday night. School board meetings normally are the second Monday of the month, but moved up a week with USD 464 on spring break next week. For more from those meetings, see next week’s edition of The Mirror or visit the city ...

‘School choice’ is culture-war focus for Kansas lawmakers this session

TOPEKA — Top Republican legislators in Kansas are focusing on helping conservative parents remove their children from public schools over what’s taught about gender and sexuality rather than pursuing a version of what critics call Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. A proposal to allow ...

Douglas County following Leavenworth County expanding commission to 5 seats

Though voters will have to wait nearly two more years to fill the two vacant seats on the newly expanded five-seat Douglas County Commission, Leavenworth County has completed the same process in recent years and could provide some clues about what’s to come here. Douglas County voters ...