“De Soto resident Courtney Tripp filed this week as the first Democratic candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives’ newly created District 117…
“The new District 117 currently doesn’t have an elected representative living within its borders. The district will represent the southern portion of Eudora plus a chunk of the area of Douglas County just south of Lawrence, but more than 80% of its population resides in Johnson County.”
Read the full story by Austin Hornbostel in the Lawrence Journal-World.