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A lousy system
Spring will bring us tree pollen, ragweed, and presidential primaries. There are remedies at hand for most seasonal allergies but an antidote for these...
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Opportunity
Four years ago, students and educators in southwest Kansas began talk of bringing a satellite campus from one of the state's universities to Dodge...
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The state budget (4)
To most Kansans, the state budget is a ghost. It lives only on line ‒ a mysterious, cyberworld phantom roused only when politicians speak...
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The state budget (3)
The governor's overall spending plan for the next budget year (beginning July 1) is estimated at $26.5 billion.
At its core is the general fund,...
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The state budget (2)
Legislators are reviewing Gov. Laura Kelly's proposed $26.5 billion budget for the 2025 fiscal year that begins in July. The total is from all...
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The state budget (1)
By early October each year, the agencies of state government are busy calculating their budgets for the next fiscal year. Scores of agents and...
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Trade blackmail
Word from Republicans is that the party's odds-on presidential nominee, Donald Trump, plans to reverse President Biden's foreign trade policy soon after he is...
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Carrier pigeons
The president of the Kansas Senate now heads one of America's strongest conservative cause lobbies, the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Ty Masterson, a Republican from...
