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Mutual purpose – a memory
A generation ago most Kansans, from metro, 'burbs or boondocks, recognized a connection with their state legislators. What happened in town or on the...
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Rural issues, rural caucus
The Kansas Legislature has marked a special session this week in Topeka to curse federal covid vaccine mandates. Other legislatures have done the same...
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Women in Politics (II)
In earlier times, elevated political status and powerful rank did not come easily for Kansas women. Achievement was slow when women were for serving...
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Costly failings
The University of Kansas presents a stark view to the cross-currents of athletics, money and schooling. On March 10, less than a day after...
Marshal, John
Kobach’s chicanery is a blight on Kansas
In a recent stinging column, Ed Flentje dismissed Secretary of State Kris Kobach as a two-bit curbstone lawyer who has chased the myth of...
Marshal, John
From Kansas to Washington, the nightmare redux
Kansas is the Mother Shipton, the Madame Thebes, the
Witch of Endor, and the low barometer of the nation. When
anything is going to happen in...
Marshal, John
More cards, more spluttering at standout legislators
The mail has brought us another slick one from the Kochs’
printing factory, a full-color complaint that State Sen. Randall
Hardy had voted for “a $1.2...
Marshal, John
Insurance must involve everyone
Another important issue with Republicans’ health insurance plans is eliminating the current requirement, under the Affordable Care Act, that young and healthy people buy...
