The Kansas Legislature wrapped up its main session the early morning hours of Saturday, March 28. Opinion editor Clay Wirestone leads a conversation with Kansas Reflector reporters to recap what happened.

Katy Tyndell is among Democrats hoping for the chance to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Estes, who has held the 4th District since 2017. She talks about her background as an attorney in Washington, D.C., her work with Leading Kansas, a civic engagement nonprofit she cofounded last year, and her views on various issues facing Congress.

Jason Hart is one of eight Democratic candidates lining up to take a shot at unseating Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall. He talks about being a political novice, his experience as a prosecutor of child sex crimes, views on federal policy, how being a straight, white, Christian man gives him bipartisan appeal, and his failed attempt to ward off a competitor.

Erik Murray is a Kansas City, Kansas-based entrepreneur who is trying to beat out a crowded field of Democrats running for U.S. Senate with a solutions-oriented campaign and a 105-county tour, which he announced on the Kansas Reflector podcast.

Former Kansas Rep. Jim Karleskint, a Vietnam War veteran who now lobbies for Veterans of Foreign Wars, says lobbying by for-profit claim consultants paved the way for legislation that would allow them to charge a fee for helping veterans, a service others provide for free.

Clinician and trauma therapist Tara Wallace talks about practices by Medicaid managed care organizations that harm mental health professionals, their clients and the already fragile Kansas network.

Former Gov. Jeff Colyer says experience in legislative and executive branch affairs and a lifetime as surgeon prepares him to return to the Capitol as governor in January 2027.

Charlotte O’Hara positions herself as the antidote to "career politicians" who are seeking the GOP nomination for governor. She talks about her career and upbringing, as well as views on abortion, computers and cellphones in schools, and "corporate welfare" given to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Justice K.J. Wall talks solutions to the declining numbers of attorneys in roughly half of the state of Kansas.

Kansas State Treasurer Steven Johnson talks about hiring a new program manager for Kansas 529 educational savings plans and updating investment options and tools parents can use to figure out the cost of post-secondary education.