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While the Newton City Commission accepted a recommendation to issue a special use permit for a bed and breakfast, the commission tabled a final decision on that application.The application came for a home at 2302 Paddington Ave., for an Airbnb “Hosted Home.”During the public hearing at the planning and zoning commission one neighbor spoke out in opposition, however members of the homeowner’s association reached out to city commission Clint McBroom.McBroom revealed during the Oct.

TOPEKA — A conservative campaign-finance reform organization involved in a key federal court decision leading to creation of super PACs urged the Kansas Legislature to overhaul the state’s “unconstitutional” definition of political action committee and to end regulation of political advocacy groups raising or spending less than $5,000 annually.Bradley Smith, representing the Institute for Free Speech in Washington, D.C., told the House and Senate elections committee that Kansas should allow unlimited donations to political parties and index to inflation all contribution limits in state law.

TOPEKA — Deb Gruver believes she suffered lasting emotional and physical injury when Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody snatched her cell phone out of her hand during the unprecedented raid on the Marion County Record newspaper.Now, in an answer to Gruver’s federal lawsuit against him, Cody denies most of the allegations against him for his actions before and during the Aug.

Over a long career of teaching, coaching and working with people, Virgil Penner didn’t forget about his art.“Bold Color: Acrylic Paintings by Virgil Penner” is now in the Regier Art Gallery in Luyken Fine Arts Center at Bethel College, through Oct.