2018 News Archive

  • Free content ready for National Sunshine Week

    March 4, 2018

    National Sunshine Week has been celebrated every March since 2005, thanks to the hard work of the American Society of News Editors. Participants include print, broadcast and online news media, civics...

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  • KPA, NMA, NNA fight newsprint tariff placement

    January 31, 2018

    The Kansas Press Association has been working with the National Newspaper Association and the News Media Alliance — the newspaper industry’s representatives — on how to react to the announcement that...

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  • Help us identify best open government advocates

    January 15, 2018

    The 2018 session of the Kansas Legislature is under way, so the Kansas Press Association is asking members to help us identify the legislators who we can count on to stand behind an open government...

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  • Pulitzer winner Mike McGraw dead at 69

    January 8, 2018

    Mike McGraw, a longtime Kansas City Star reporter whose insatiable quest to expose wrongdoing spanned four decades, prompted congressional investigations and prodded changes in government policies,...

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  • AG Schmidt rules on recess meetings issue

    January 4, 2018

    BY SUZANNE PEREZ TOBIAS, Wichita Eagle Government bodies can’t conduct private meetings that span several days – as the Wichita school board did last February – according to Kansas Attorney General...

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