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Tomorrow’s mail?
There is a thin sliver of hope that Congress may bring new life to the U.S. Postal Service. Last month a group of senators,...
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Kobach’s ghosts
With chilling routine, Topeka continues to punch out ways to make voting more difficult if not impossible. A generation ago, state legislators – Republicans...
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Property taxes: small schools (Last of three articles)
Following wholesale reforms in 1992, the Kansas Legislature continued to wrestle with local school finance almost yearly – even after a half-dozen warnings from...
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Property taxes: reappraisal (Second of three articles)
The trouble with taxes lies in a principle of human nature. People tend to view government finance this way: Impose taxes so the other...
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Property taxes: update (First of three articles)
May brought a deadline for property tax payments, and of all the prudent words woven into the Kansas Constitution, no string of them has...
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Without a compass
The topic of newspaper editorials and opinion pages bumps up now and then like an old friend now in rags, frequently homeless, consigned to...
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Sounds, and noise
The other day a long flatbed truck carrying a pile of wet sand roared by the post office, belching more racket than a pack...
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Women in politics (IV) (Last in a series)
Women began to acquire strength in Kansas politics long ago, when Susanna Salter was elected in 1887 in Argonia, the first woman to be...
