Kansas ends tax breaks for megaprojects as Panasonic plant rises
Construction crews press toward a $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery plant in De Soto as Kansas’s APEX subsidy law wanes. The program, which limited mega-deals to one per year in 2022 and 2023, faced conservative backlash while officials tout its role in attracting big employers. Panasonic could gain federal incentives totaling about $6.8 billion, per Good Jobs First. The plant aims to start operations in early 2025.
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Kansas
APEX
Integra
Wichita
Paul Hughes
Laura Kelly
Hughes
Good Jobs First
Kobach aims to bar trans intervenors in Kansas ID suit
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach seeks to block transgender residents from intervening in a state court suit over sex markers on driver licenses. The case, tied to a July 1 law rollback, halts further changes until at least November as Judge Teresa Watson prepares to decide on intervention after an August 16 hearing.
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Tapeera
Kansas
Kris Kobach
Kansas Department of Revenue
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Motor Vehicles
Department of Revenue
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American Civil Liberties Union
Teresa Watson
Watson
Public input fuels review of Lawrence land use plan
Law rence's Land Development Code Steering Committee gathers comments from six community meetings on density downtown growth and fear of change as the city revises zoning districts and uses for the first time since 2006. Clarion Associates' Elizabeth Garvin notes public concerns as meetings continue.
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Lawrence
Man tied and kept in concrete tomb in alleged kidnapping
Tahreen Allen age 20 of Lawrence and Mustafa Darrell Muhammad Springs age 19 of Kansas City Kansas face Douglas County District Court charges. They are charged with one count each of aggravated kidnapping aggravated robbery and aggravated residential burglary all felonies. Allen also faces felony possession of a firearm by a felon.
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Lawrence
Mustafa Darrell Muhammad Springs
Kansas City
Kansas
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