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Rediscovery
Time for our seasonal pause to consider the fashion of man's chronicle. Since before Christ, that history is richly indifferent. It sighs and shrugs,...
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Anticipation
Advent here blew in on a low gray day. A frosty mist put vapor in the air and brought an early glow from the...
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A Republican original
Decades ago when the Republicans had genuine leadership, the party celebrated its elder statesmen. After the Tafts and Teddy Roosevelt, Republican respect began to...
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Choked Universities
A university education in Kansas is soon to get a bit more expensive. The Board of Regents, which oversees the state's six universities, is...
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East and West (3)
The state's few metropolitan counties and its vast rural stretches are set apart by contrasting landscapes, divergent lifestyles and disparate cultures. But their people...
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East and west (2)
It's doubtful that anyone in Lawrence worries over the water supply in Hays or cattle prices in Dodge City ‒ at least not in...
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East and West (1)
It's nearly two years since Lawrence became an urban foster child in farm country.
After the 2020 census, the legislature's dominant Republicans were gripped by...
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Potential Spam
The Kansas Legislature is on the way to a fat pay increase, courtesy of a special compensation committee created earlier this year by the...

