Kansas's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. Based in the south central part of the state,the district encompasses the city of Wichita,the largest city in Kansas,three universities,Arkansas City,and the State of Kansas's only national airport.
KWCH-DT is a television station licensed to Hutchinson,Kansas,United States,serving the Wichita area as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Gray Media alongside CW affiliate KSCW-DT and maintains studios on 37th Street North in northeast Wichita and a transmitter facility located east of Hutchinson in rural northeastern Reno County. KWCH-DT serves as the flagship of the Kansas Broadcasting System (KBS),a network of four full-power stations that relay CBS network and other programming provided by KWCH across central and western Kansas,as well as bordering counties in Colorado,Nebraska,and Oklahoma.
Susan Peters is a former news anchor. She worked for KAKE,the ABC affiliate in Wichita,Kansas from 1995 to 2016. She has won regional Emmy awards for her reporting in both California and Kansas.
Susan Wagle is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Kansas Senate,representing the 30th district from 2001 to 2021. She was elected Kansas Senate President in 2013 and was reelected in 2017. She is the first woman to hold this position.
Tracey Robert Mann is an American businessman and politician who has served as the U.S. representative from Kansas's 1st congressional district since 2021. The district,popularly known as "the Big First," includes parts of 63 counties in central and western Kansas and is the seventh-largest district in the nation that does not cover an entire state.
Oletha A. Goudeau is a Democratic member of the Kansas Senate,representing the 29th district since 2009—the first African-American woman in the Kansas Senate. Most recently,she is the Senate Assistant Minority Leader.
Laura Jeanne Kelly is an American politician serving as the 48th governor of Kansas since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,she represented the 18th district in the Kansas Senate from 2005 to 2019. Kelly was elected governor in 2018,defeating Republican nominee Kris Kobach. She was reelected in 2022,narrowly defeating Republican nominee Derek Schmidt by a 2.21% margin.
The Marion County Record is a weekly newspaper published in Marion,Kansas,United States,and the newspaper of record for the city and Marion County. It publishes Wednesdays. Its offices are across the street from the Marion County Courthouse. The paper was founded as The Western News in 1869 in nearby Detroit,Kansas. It soon moved to Marion,as it went through a series of owners and publishers and several names until 1874. It was then purchased by the Hoch family,which sold it in 1998 to the Meyer family,who had been involved since 1948 and continue to own it.
Michael O'Donnell II –also known as Michael O'Donnell,Jr. –is a former Republican member of the Sedgwick County Commission in Kansas,representing District 2 from 2017 to 2020. He previously represented the 25h district in the Kansas Senate,and was a member of the Wichita City Council.
Jeff Longwell is an American politician and businessman who served as the 101st mayor of Wichita,Kansas from 2015 to 2020.
A special election was held on April 11,2017,to determine the member of the United States House of Representatives for Kansas's 4th congressional district after the incumbent,Mike Pompeo,resigned because of his nomination by President Donald Trump as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Republican Ron Estes received 52.2% of the vote and won,while runner-up Democrat James Thompson lost with 46% of the vote.
On December 28,2017,a fatal swatting incident occurred in Wichita,Kansas,United States. During an online dispute between Casey Viner and Shane Gaskill regarding the video game Call of Duty:WWII,Viner threatened to have Gaskill swatted. Gaskill responded by giving him a false address for his residence,one that was occupied by an uninvolved person,Andrew Finch. Viner then asked Tyler Barriss,an anonymous online swatter,to make the required fraudulent call to initiate the swatting. Wichita Police responded to the address,and as Finch was exiting his house,police officer Justin Rapp fatally shot him.
Lynn Wayne Rogers is an American politician and businessman who served as the 41st Kansas State Treasurer from 2021 to 2023. He previously served as the 51st lieutenant governor of Kansas from 2019 to 2021. A Democrat,he had previously served on the board of Wichita Public Schools from 2001 to 2017,and in the Kansas Senate representing the 25th district in west Wichita from 2017 to 2019.
Brandon Whipple is an American politician and academic who formerly served as mayor of Wichita,Kansas. He previously served as a Democratic Party member of the Kansas House of Representatives representing the 96th district,which included part of south Wichita and was the Ranking Minority member on the Higher Education Budget committee.
The 2019 Wichita mayoral election took place on November 5,2019,to elect the mayor of Wichita,Kansas. The election is officially nonpartisan. Incumbent Jeff Longwell ran for reelection and faced Brandon Whipple in the runoff election. Whipple defeated Longwell,who conceded on election night.
Michael Capps is an American politician who was born in Wichita,Kansas. A Republican,he was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives for the 85th district from 2018 to 2021.
Karen Irene Countryman-Roswurm is a Native American (Blackfoot) social worker,professor,and academic administrator who specializes in the field of human trafficking and other forms of exploitation. She is an associate professor in the school of social work at Wichita State University and the founder and executive director of the Wichita State University Center for Combating Human Trafficking (CCHT).
The COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas is a viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
The 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election took place on November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Kansas,with primary elections taking place on August 2,2022. Governor Laura Kelly won re-election to a second term,defeating Republican State Attorney General Derek Schmidt in the general election by a margin of roughly 2.2 percentage points.
The 2023 Wichita mayoral election was held on November 7,2023,to elect the mayor of Wichita,Kansas. The election is required to be non-partisan,but most candidates are known to be affiliated with political parties. Incumbent Democratic mayor Brandon Whipple unsuccessfully ran for re-election to a second term,losing to registered Libertarian candidate Lily Wu.
