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Democrats have a choice; Republicans have an echo
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Kansas has not elected a governor from the Democratic party since Kathleen Sebelius, in 2002. Sebelius had been elected and reelected as Insurance Commissioner...
Republicans, the club for cage fighters
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If we learn anything from the so-called “debates” among Republican candidates for Kansas governor, it’s that the party has tightened its tent.
The staged debates...
Protecting the free marketplace
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The nasty label of “liberal” has been stuck on
those who favor public schools, public highways,
Social Security with simpler programs of Medicare
and Medicaid, and such...
Profile from a different time
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Former Kansas Senator Bob Dole was honored a couple
of weeks ago with the Congressional Gold Medal, a ceremony
that presented a chilling contrast – a...
ACA enrollment opens; Trump hauls out a Kansas relic
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President Trump has taken a page from the Sam
Brownback playbook, the one about wrecking
institutions by throttling their budgets. It’s from
the chapter entitled “Undermine and...
Deanell Reese Tacha: A vivid history comes to Lindsborg
The Kansas Women Attorneys Association meets this week in Lindsborg – for the 26th consecutive year – and again has stretched the measure of...
Walker pulls a ‘Brownback,’ angering his own GOP
Out on the national hustings, Scott Walker may be a darling
of the Republican right, but in Wisconsin, where he is governor,
he’s in trouble.
In the...
Will legislators revive the sales tax on utilities?
There have been few big plans to fill the state’s immediate
$400 million budget shortfall. But one idea, first mentioned
in 2010 and quietly revived recently,...
Tax cuts become a crushing local burden
In Kansas, a great flywheel has been set in motion, dragging the citizenry inexorably along the governor’s Glide Path to Zero, that no income...
Fringe voters elect a crackpot legislature
Our elections are tailored today for the zealous voter and the fringe campaign.
Consider: Of citizens over age 18 (and eligible to vote), fewer than...