- Advertisement -

CATEGORY

Marshall, John

The iron chains of freedom

In a strong endorsement of politics by pulpit, the Kansas legislature approved legislation that protects faith-based adoption agencies that cite “religious beliefs” for refusing...

Kansas educators can relate to the walkouts

The teacher walkouts continue, with Arizona and Colorado recent additions to the statewide protests. Frustration turned to exasperation in West Virginia and then Oklahoma,...

Gilt-edged retirement for a KU chancellor

There is mounting interest, especially in Lawrence, over that half-million dollar dose of heart balm for KU’s departed chancellor, Bernadette Gray-Little. Although Gray-Little left the...

2018 Legislature: Building apology into the message

The Kansas Legislature has again revealed an inept leadership, a cabal that each year seeks another miracle of failure. Of the many critical issues that confronted...

Too big to regulate

Six years ago JP Morgan, the big bank, suffered a trading loss of between $2 billion and $3 billion. Investors were worried that this...

A grand legacy threatened; the viper in our garden

For six decades, the Secretary of State’s office was Kansas’ chief steward of government order and commercial province. It was a modest, efficient agency,...

Lasting reform begins on the middle ground

In the distraction and attraction of other issues, legislators at Topeka have forgotten that the Kansas confusion over state aid for cities and counties...

Department Of Baseball: (One thing must never change)

In the era of Mantle and Maris, of the Duke and Pee Wee, of Willie Mays and Larry Doby, major league baseball was a...

Congress and the debt: Make America weak again

To hear the Congress tell it, wars and tax cuts are a good thing. Medicare and Social Security are mentioned in dis- dain, as...

Keep the VA federal; KanCare clone not needed

Those who think that privatizing the Veterans Administration is a good idea should have a look at Kansas and the calamity of KanCare. It’s...
- Advertisement -
big iron
- Advertisement -

Latest news

- Advertisement -
rural messenger subscription