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Marshall, John
Kobach’s crusade: Leave everything to him
The Legislature, ever protective of our democracy, has granted the state’s chief election clerk, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the power to prosecute people...
Kansas’ new school finance: Fabrication and deceit
School finance in Kansas has moved from a sophisticated national model to a slow-witted script straight from the tunnel sewers in a Dickens tragedy...
While we’re at it, let’s renounce the British
Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who wants to
be president, is a long-standing, steadfast critic of restoring
U.S.-Cuba diplomatic relations.
Ruio, who is of Cuban ancestry,...
Finding one source of legislative madness
For those who wonder how things went so wrong in Topeka during the last legislative session, consider those supposedly in charge. Trouble began when...
Reason to be grateful for good government
An August 15 memo from Lindsborg City Administrator Greg DuMars provides a good look at the raw mechanics of local government, the hidden challenges...
The bigger Hastert story: a crime missing a perp
Anyone out there remember the Dennis Hastert scandal?
Hastert, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999-2007), was indicted in late May and...
DEPARTMENT OF MEMORIES: Early chess in Lindsborg
Anistasiya James, the new director at the Karpov International Chess School in Lindsborg, gave an inspired talk recently to the Kiwanis Club, recounting the...
Were the 2014 elections hacked? (Officials block search for answers )
More questions continue to bubble up, adding to the feeling that all those pre-election polls in Kansas might not have been wrong after all....
Storms remind us why we need a federal government
President Obama, the man so many Kansans love to hate, has declared 42 counties major disaster areas in the wake of savage storms that...
When we once admired teachers
Virginia Long was the first teacher I really liked. During my years at Lincoln Grade School, in the 1950s, kindergarten and each of six...
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