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Kansas receivers coach Emmett Jones slaps hands with players at the start of practice on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019.
With the future of the Kansas football program in limbo, some Jayhawks on Wednesday night began publicly drumming up support for Emmett Jones to become the team’s next head coach.
The endorsements for Jones, KU’s third-year receivers coach, began hitting the Twittersphere hours after Jeff Long stepped down as athletic director and two days removed from KU parting ways with Les Miles.
Having those two mammoth vacancies coincide made what will come next for the head coaching position all the more unpredictable, perhaps prompting players to voice their preference for Jones.
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Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, February 2014.
TOPEKA A House committee on Monday approved a bill that would create an independent agency to oversee Kansas’ foster care system.
The House Children and Seniors Committee advanced the bill creating the Office of the Child Advocate to investigate complaints and track child welfare agencies, primarily the state Department for Children and Families, which oversees the foster care system.
The move came after Rep. Jarrod Ousley, a Merriam Democrat and the bill’s chief proponent, compromised with some Republican lawmakers and agreed to have the proposed agency report to the Legislature instead of the Department of Administration an executive branch agency under Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.