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Marshall, John
‘One man, one vote’
The 2020 federal census will guide another reapportionment of seats (and power) in the Kansas House of Representatives, State Senate and State Board of...
A Rural Exodus
Reports from the U.S. Census Bureau tell a familiar Kansas story, of growth in the metropolitan northeast and the Sedgwick-Butler County region. For the...
Debt and the ceiling
Congress has been in a twist over raising the nation's $28 trillion debt limit by deadlines that seem to be on perpetual reset. At...
A matter of life
A recent state survey of young adults has clarified a problem and reset some thinking on life in rural Kansas – why they live...
Going electric
The campaign has begun to turn us from a country of gas guzzlers to a nation of watt-burners.
President Biden hopes half the cars sold...
A 7-county party
Many years ago, a young man at an Overland Park car rental agency, trying to be congenial, asked where I was headed.
"Hutchinson," I said.
His...
Power to the Northeast
The first burst of data from the 2020 U.S. Census has been a trove of numbers for statisticians to moon over. The City has...
‘Values’ and other trouble
The coming election season is likely to bring another round of chatter about "values." This is a tricky undertaking for anyone, especially candidates for...
Highways and health
Before the Interstate highways, a ride from Kansas on the old roads was a trip along the shifts in American life and living. Up...
The IRS problem
Congress is in another needless argument about the Internal Revenue Service.
Democratic propose to pay for infrastructure investments by putting more money into the IRS,...
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