Heading into a presidential election year that includes the first Kansas presidential primaries since 1992, the Sedgwick County Election Office will spend more than it has in at least 10 years. The election office will get $3.5 million in 2024 under a budget recently adopted by the Sedgwick County Commission. But a request to send […]

Author Archives: Polly Basore Wenzl
Polly Basore Wenzl is the editor of The Wichita Beacon. A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, she worked as a reporter in Washington, D.C., before coming to Wichita in 1998. She is the author of the 2021 book about her family's experience in Wichita during the pandemic, "Apocalyptic Polly: A Pandemic Memoir."