Jim McLean
Jim McLean, Executive Editor of KHI News Service, oversees the KHI News Service. From 2005 until 2013, McLean coordinated all communications activities at KHI as Vice President for Public Affairs. The position he now occupies was created as part of a strategic initiative to solidify the editorial and operational independence of the KHI News Service. Prior to coming to KHI, McLean had a distinguished career as a journalist, serving as the news director and Statehouse bureau chief for Kansas Public Radio and a managing editor for the Topeka Capital-Journal. During his more than 20 years in Kansas journalism, McLean won numerous awards for journalistic excellence from the Kansas Press Association, regional chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. In 1997, McLean and two Capital-Journal colleagues received the Burton W. Marvin News Enterprise Award from the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism for a series of stories on the state’s business climate. McLean holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Washburn University.
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Like a lot of rural hospitals in Kansas, the one in Arkansas City has seen better, more profitable days. It's now losing money and many feel the only way to save it is by scaling back on services. Officials at SCK Health think that by restructuring the hospital, they may qualify for a federal lifeline. -
Federal money will pay for property tax refunds for some small businesses that lost money in the wake of various efforts to control the spread of COVID-19. -
Commerce Secretary David Toland says Kansas is in discussions with eight other companies that are seeking to spend a billion dollars or more to locate facilities in the state. -
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly delivered the annual state of the state speech Tuesday night, laying out her legislative priorities while making a case for her reelection later this year. The governor called on lawmakers to pass a number of proposals including cutting sales taxes on groceries, freezing public university tuition and eliminating partisan squabbling. -
Former Kansas Health Secretary Lee Norman says politics hindered the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Lawmakers used a one-day special session to approve the bill to allow no-questions-asked exemptions to vaccine requirements and fine Kansas businesses that don't comply. -
Burdett Loomis, known to many as "Bird," died over the weekend at 76, after being a fixture on the Kansas political scene for decades. -
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly is ordering Kansans to stay at home except for when they have to venture out for essential services, like food, medicine or medical care. -
Laura Kelly was the first governor in the nation to close all K-12 schools for the rest of the academic year. The action comes as the state and the nation try to stem the spread of coronavirus. Kelly says governors from around the country are now asking the federal government to help bolster state supplies of COVID-19 testing kits and ventilators. -
With the coronavirus threatening to shorten the Kansas legislative session lawmakers remain far apart on the big issues of abortion and Medicaid expansion.
