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Roots of discord (2)
Second of five articles on the history of trouble in the Kansas Republican party
Among the historic battles among Kansas Republicans, few match the decade-long...
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Roots of discord (1)
First of five articles on the history of trouble in the Kansas Republican party
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Although Kansans frequently elect Democratic governors, we are seen as a...
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Faith-based potholes
Coffee clubs were likely unnerved recently when Mike Brown, the state's ham-fisted Republican chairman, said Kansas should junk non-partisan local elections. He believes candidates...
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Squeezing hope
Tuition at the Kansas' six state universities will increase at least five percent next year, the first general increase in five years. State aid...
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Country Medicine (2)
In late April, Kansas News Service reported on our ailing rural health care with focus on the hospital in Arkansas City ‒ not quite...
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Country medicine (1)
In the year after the Lincoln County Hospital opened in 1952, I went there to have my tonsils out. The world is a big...
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Gravel roads
There are at least 78,000 miles of gravel roads in Kansas, about 60 percent of the state's total road mileage. Estimates and studies can...
