Abigail Censky
Political Reporter, Kansas News ServiceAbigail Censky is the Politics & Government reporter at WKAR. She started in December 2018.
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Sen. Roger Marshall keeps telling Kansans to talk to their doctors about being vaccinated, but the advice he gives from his partisan platform as a doctor often doesn't match with recommendations from other health experts.
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New data from the federal government show an early COVID-19 death in Kansas could be the first in the country.
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Republicans will control the redistricting process in Kansas next year. Right now, they face an uphill battle to convince residents in the suburbs of Kansas City that they won’t gerrymander the maps to supercharge Republican power.
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The agreement promises services that could help hundreds of people leave nursing homes and live on their own.
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Over the decades, the Lesser Prairie Chicken has become a purity test for Kansas politicians and a proxy in the battle between industry and private landowners versus environmentalists.
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As the delta variant pummels Kansas, there's confusion about who has the authority to issue pandemic restrictions that could curb the spread of COVID.
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Union members rejected a contract offer and walked off the job this week complaining about stagnant wages and sometimes being forced to work six- and seven-day weeks.
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Now that Congress has killed a major bill changing election rules, redrawing legislative and congressional lines will fall to the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature. That could endanger the only Democrat representing Kansas on Capitol Hill.
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During the pandemic, many school boards, city and state governments pivoted to using social media to broadcast their meetings. Now some are running into problems with Big Tech for spreading medical misinformation.
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Youtube pulled a Kansas schoolboard's meeting for containing COVID-19 falsehoods — a warning for school boards, state governments, and city councils that use the site to meet transparency standards.