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Now, and then
Two Kansas governors, Democrats John Carlin and Laura Kelly, have encountered the local storms of a national inflation, a shared experience linked over 40...
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Debt and politics
First, the debt:
Each year the Congress blesses an extravagant number of programs that keep America going, from the farm bill and highways through health...
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Cities and towns: The story of a villainous former police detective in Kansas City recently made it to the east coast, where the Washington...
'Kansas town weighs racial
justice as ex-officer faces
charges of abuse'
Now in court, the case unfolds a story of rampant corruption and the consistent raping of...
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The Eight-County Message
The November election dust has settled to reveal another uneasy shuffling of Kansas politics and culture. Many eyes were on the race for governor;...
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On gratitude
Thanksgiving brings a bundle of sentiment and nerves. We are told that this is a time to put the bygones aside and our troubles...
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A people’s choice
When the late Joan Finney was governor in the early 1990s, one of her pet themes was initiative and referendum– a catchphrase for "Let...
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Trading places and Tin cup finance
Trading places
Another election is finished, but not the abuse of its political hot air. A long tunnel of mirrors has closed; the oft-mentioned Biden...
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Two bad ideas
Two proposed constitutional amendments are on the Nov. 8 ballot. One would upend the balance of power in state government. The other would hamstring...
