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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...

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...

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,...

I’m having an out-and-out war with the coyotes killing my chickens. A coyote pair and their two-thirds grown pups are playing havoc with my...

MEDICINE LODGE PEACE TREATY "A PEOPLE WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR PAST HISTORY, ORIGIN AND CULTURE IS LIKE A TREE WITHOUT ROOTS."       In the course of the westward...

 For those who wonder how things went so wrong in Topeka during the last legislative session, consider those supposedly in charge. Trouble began when...

Goals are a good thing. I may have set mine a little high this summer. I have all the mundane, every year goals. Not...

An August 15 memo from Lindsborg City Administrator Greg DuMars provides a good look at the raw mechanics of local government, the hidden challenges...

Nevah and I took a 3-day vacation last week to spend a day at the Iowa State Fair -- the state fair to end...

We didn’t have kindergarten in our little town when I started to school so our first indoctrination into learning was first grade. We were...