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Data center boom creates new legal and property challenges for rural landowners
The rapid expansion of data centers across the United States is bringing new economic opportunities to rural communities, but it is also creating a host of legal, financial and property rights issues that many landowners have never faced before. As…
Lawrence schools ordered to pay $113k for KORA violations
Federal Judge Kathryn H. Vratil has ordered USD 497 Lawrence to pay over $113,000 in attorneys’ fees for a group of student plaintiffs after the district was found to have violated KORA (the Kansas Open Records Act). According to the…
<div style="color: #333;">Law professor outlines data center concerns for rural landowners</div>
The potential for data centers being built in Pottawatomie County gives rural landowners an uneasy future, an agriculture law professor said. Roger McEowen is the Kansas Farm Bureau professor of agricultural law and taxation at Washburn and also teaches undergraduate…
<div style="color: #333;">‘Starter homes’ are disappearing in Johnson County. New Kansas law aims to bring them back</div>
For Kansas Sen. TJ Rose, addressing Kansas’ widening housing shortage and growing housing unaffordability is a family matter. His son, Garrin, is a 24-year-old member of Gen Z who recently moved back to Johnson County. Rose worries that people in…
<div style="color: #333;">New Concordia Ordinance Limits Where E-Bikes and E-Scooters Can Ride</div>
Concordia passed a new ordinance governing the utilization of e-bikes, e-trikes, and e-scooters, effective July 6. Chief of Police Brent Gering said the move was made due to a rise in reports concerning the vehicles. “The Concordia Police Department had…
<div style="color: #333;">El Dorado commission invalidates citizen-led petition on data centers, asks court to weigh in</div>
The El Dorado City Commission voted on Monday to invalidate an ordinance petition that would have stopped certain types of facilities from being built in the city, but commissioners also voted to put a temporary ban on the approval of…
<div style="color: #333;">Curfew a forgotten ordinance among county communities</div>
It might be the most forgotten ordinance throughout all of the communities of Harvey County: curfew. All of the communities in the county, excluding Burrton, do have some form of curfew ordinances on their respective books. However, violations are few…
<div style="color: #333;">KWO announces State Water Infrastructure Grant</div>
The Kansas Water Office (KWO) announced the opening of the State Water Infrastructure Grant Program, previously called the HB 2302 Grant Program, which provides funding for up-front technical assistance and on-the-ground actions needed to address water quantity and quality issues…
<div style="color: #333;">AG Opinion 2026-9: Expanding college taxing districts</div>
A community college’s taxing district is established and limited by statute. The Legislature has not granted community colleges the authority to remove or transfer territory from one community college district to another. If one of the two community colleges in…
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