Kansas
Governor decries ‘distracting’ Kansas with ‘wedge issues’ in State of the State address
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly known as Tuesday for Kansas officers to cease distracting themselves with “wedge points” in schooling, sharply rebuking a Republican-controlled Legislature pursuing insurance policies catering to conservative mother and father sad with public faculties.
Kelly used her annual State of the State deal with to decry what she known as efforts to “flip mother and father towards academics” and “flip communities towards their faculties.” She wasn’t particular, however high Republicans have promised to pursue a number of concepts in vogue in GOP-led states, together with restrictions on what public Okay-12 faculties can train about gender and sexuality.
Republican lawmakers plan to pursue a measure to permit mother and father to assert tax {dollars} beforehand earmarked for public faculties to cowl non-public or house education prices. Iowa’s GOP-controlled Legislature authorised such a plan early Tuesday. Kelly strongly opposes the concept.
Kelly additionally toughened her tone in advocating for the legalization of marijuana for medical makes use of, calling the state’s present prohibition “ridiculous.” She highlighted the case of a terminally unwell man who had his northwestern Kansas hospital room raided by police as a result of he was utilizing marijuana extracts to ease his ache.
The Democratic governor’s powerful discuss on these points contrasted along with her extolling the pursuit of middle-of-the-road insurance policies elsewhere in Tuesday night’s deal with to a joint session of the Home and Senate. She additionally known as for continued bipartisanship within the inaugural deal with that opened her second, four-year time period earlier this month.
“All of us agree our youngsters do higher when mother and father and academics are concerned of their schooling,” Kelly mentioned within the ready textual content of her deal with. “So, quite than distracting ourselves with wedge points, let’s give attention to giving them the sources and help that they want.”
Kelly had been scheduled to provide the State of the State on Jan. 11 however examined constructive for COVID-19 the day earlier than, solely to be taught later it was a false constructive. Her workplace went forward with releasing her proposed $24.1 billion state funds for the 2024 fiscal 12 months starting July 1.
The state is flush with money, and Kelly already had proposed a collection of tax cuts, together with the elimination of the state’s 4% gross sales tax on groceries on April 1. Republican leaders are pushing a proposal to maneuver Kansas to a “flat” revenue tax, with one price every for particular person and company filers, as a substitute of three for people and two for companies.
Republicans outlined an agenda two weeks in the past that features measures common with GOP conservatives in quite a few different states, together with a ban on transgender athletes in women and girls’s Okay-12, membership and school sports activities. Kelly has vetoed two earlier proposals.
In Republicans’ official response, taped two weeks in the past, Senate President Ty Masterson, a Wichita-area Republican, mentioned that below Kelly, the state is on a path towards making Okay-12 faculties “into little greater than factories for a radical social agenda.” Masterson has mentioned he needs to pursue restrictions on how public faculties talk about gender and sexuality, like what critics name Florida’s “Don’t Say Homosexual” regulation.
Kelly declared: “Know this: I’ll oppose any efforts which can be designed to show mother and father towards academics, to show communities towards their faculties, to show younger folks away from the educating career.”
State Rep. Kristey Williams, a Wichita-area Republican chairing a Home committee on Okay-12 spending, mentioned she is engaged on a plan for schooling financial savings accounts for fogeys, utilizing tax {dollars}. Masterson mentioned the GOP will “give attention to college students, not legacy methods.”
“We wish top quality classical schooling that focuses on tutorial excellence, getting ready our youngsters for a profitable future, not the sexualized woke agenda we see permeating the system right now,” Masterson mentioned.
Kelly’s deal with got here solely hours after a whole lot of abortion opponents and parochial college college students rallied outdoors the Statehouse to mark final Sunday’s fiftieth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade resolution, which the U.S. Supreme Courtroom overturned final 12 months. However Kansas anti-abortion teams suffered a decisive political loss in August, when a statewide vote strongly affirmed protections for abortion rights below the Kansas Structure.
Kelly applauded the August vote however did not point out abortion within the State of the State deal with. GOP lawmakers anticipate to push for tens of millions of {dollars} in new funding for anti-abortion being pregnant counseling facilities.
Home Speaker Dan Hawkins, a Wichita Republican, opened his remarks on the anti-abortion rally with, “Good afternoon, God’s warriors!” and promised, “We are going to proceed to battle.”
Annually Kelly has been in workplace, she has known as on legislators to develop Medicaid as inspired by the 2010 federal Reasonably priced Care Act championed by former President Barack Obama. Republicans who strongly oppose the transfer have held sufficient key management jobs to dam growth, at the same time as voters in different Republican-leaning states have embraced it, together with Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Kelly additionally has pushed legislators to legalize marijuana for medical makes use of. Whereas the Home authorised a plan in 2021, it by no means had even a committee vote within the Senate.
“Daily, hundreds of Kansans are pressured to decide on between breaking the regulation and residing with out ache,” Kelly mentioned. “It’s an insufferable selection — and a fully pointless one.”
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LAWRENCE, Kan. — The No. 8 Kansas Jayhawks are back at Allen Fieldhouse this Sunday afternoon to take on the Brown Bears in what promises to be an exciting matchup.
Kansas (8-2) is looking to build momentum after a commanding bounce-back victory over NC State, while Brown enters the contest riding high on a six-game win streak.
The Bears, representing the Ivy League, hold a 7-3 record and are currently third in their conference standings. Their recent stretch of success will be tested as they take on a Kansas team with a rich a roaring home-court advantage.
This will be the third meeting between the Jayhawks and the Bears. The teams last faced off in 1997, with Kansas securing a dominant 107-49 victory. The only other encounter dates back to 1989, when the Jayhawks claimed another lopsided win, 115-45.
Where: Allen Fieldhouse
When: Sunday, 2 p.m. CT
TV: ESPN
Streaming: FUBO TV, YouTube TV
The Jayhawks will look to maintain their strong start to the season and add another win to their record, while the Bears aim to extend their streak against a tough Big 12 opponent.
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Drake basketball player Bennett Stirtz broke the hearts of the team he grew up rooting for on Tuesday night.
Stirtz’s 3-pointer with 4 seconds left in overtime gave the Bulldogs a 73-70 victory over the Wildcats at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.
Stirtz, a native of Liberty, Mo., and a lifelong K-State fan, scored 22 points to help Drake improve to 10-0. The Bulldogs are receiving votes in the national polls and turning heads in coach Ben McCollum’s first season at the helm.
Stirtz scored eight of Drake’s 10 points in overtime.
“It had everything to do with their toughness and their will to win,” McCollum said of the victory. “To Bennett specifically, I’ve had a lot of good guards, and I remember each of their ‘We’re not going to lose this game’ moments, and that was one of those moments. That says a lot about him and that says a lot about his teammates to trust him to be able to do that.”
Drake’s Mitch Mascari led all scorers with 25 points and went 8-for-10 from three-point range. Stirtz was next with 22 to go along with four assists, two rebounds and three steals. Cam Manyawu was the other Bulldog in double figures with 11 points and seven rebounds.
Mascari was 6-for-6 from 3-point distance in the first half.
The Bulldogs have crafted an impressive resume in non-conference play, beating Miami (Fla.), Vanderbilt and now Kansas State.
Drake is one of four Division I teams still undefeated (Florida, Oklahoma, Tennessee are the others). The Bulldogs improved to 5-0 in games played away from home (4-0 neutral site, 1-0 road).
Drake will play host to Green Bay at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Knapp Center.
The Drake sports information department contributed to this report.
Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang talks about Drake
Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang talks about Drake ahead of the Wildcats’ Tuesday night’s game at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.
K-State Athletics
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas State basketball ends a 10-day layoff at its home away from home Tuesday against unbeaten Drake at T-Mobile Center.
The Wildcats (6-3) will try to get back on track after a second-half collapse resulted in an 88-71 loss at St. John’s on Dec. 7 as part of the Big 12/Big East Bash series. But they face a red-hot Drake team that is off to a 9-0 start under first-year coach Ben McCollum, including victories over Miami (Fla.), Florida Atlantic and Vanderbilt.
McCollum, who won four NCAA Division II championships at Northwest Missouri State, brought four starters with him to Drake, including top three scorers Bennett Stirtz (17.8 points, 6.1 assists per game), Daniel Abreu (13.9 points) and Mitch Mascari (12.2 points). The Bulldogs have five players on their roster from the Kansas City metro area.
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K-State is playing its first game without backup forward Achor Achor, who left the team last week for personal reasons. Villanova transfer Brendan Hausen leads the Wildcats in scoring with 15.2 points per game, followed by super-senior forward David N’Gussan with 14.2 points and 6.8 rebounds.
With the shot clock winding down, Drake’s Mitch Mascari leans in for a 3-pointers — he’s now 5-for-5 — and K-State falls behind 29-9.
With 7:39 left in the half, K-State still hasn’t cracked double digits, trailing Drake, 25-8. Drake is 9 of 15 from the floor, including 4 of 7 from 3 — Mitch Mascari 4-for-4 — while the Wildcats are 4 of 15 and have been outrebounded 11-6 and turned the ball over four times.
Drake has hit 5 of 9 shots and has assisted on each basket, and leads 14-4 with 11:48 left in the half.
K-State is 2 of 10, 0-for-5 from 3, with three turnovers.
Mobi Ikegwuruka, who had been sidelined with an injury, was the first Wildcat off the bench along with Dug McDaniel for David Castillo at the point two minutes into the game.
Drake races to a 9-0 lead, forcing Jerome Tang to burn a timeout with 15:27 left in the half. The Wildcats are 0 of 5 shooting, including three 3-pointers, and have turned the ball over twice.
Drake, on the other hand, is 4 of 6 with a 3-pointer and looks like the better team so far and it’s not close.
Freshman David Castillo gets his first start for K-State
The Kansas State point guard merry-go-round continues to spin. True freshman David Castillo gets his first career start tonight against Drake, making him the Wildcats’ third point guard to open a game this season.
CJ Jones started eight of the previous nine games and Dug McDaniel one. Interestingly, Castillo played just two minutes the last time out in the Wildcats’ 88-71 loss at St. John’s.
The other starters for the Wildcats tonight are the usual: guards Brendan Hausen and Max Jones, with Coleman Hawkins and David N’Guessan at forward.
Kansas State vs Drake game time today
- Date: Tuesday, Dec. 17
- Time: 7 p.m.
- Location: T-Mobile Center, Kansas City, Mo.
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Kansas State vs Drake prediction
K-State is a slim favorite and desperate for a victory to build momentum heading into Big 12 play, but Drake has outscored its opponents by nearly 20 points per game and ranks second nationally in scoring defense. Give a slight edge to the Bulldogs.
Prediction: Drake 70, Kansas State 65
Kansas State vs Drake betting odds
Game lines and odds from BetMGM as of Tuesday afternoon:
- Spread: Kansas State -1.5
- Over/under: 134.5 points
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Arne Green is based in Salina and covers Kansas State University sports for the Gannett network. He can be reached at agreen@gannett.com or on Twitter at @arnegreen.
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