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We elect a bigger government, then we forget why

It may seem that government has grown beyond our grasp, but it should be remembered that we have made it that way. We, the...

Term limits are still a bad idea

Leading into the coming elections, someone is bound to trot out that tired notion of term limits for legislators, as though this would solve a lot...

An adventure throttled, and long forgotten

The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the legislature’s latest effort to redeem itself in state funding for local schools. This issue...

Can we never learn from our mistakes?

  In spite of a long history that warns against such folly, the Congress and the White House continue to believe that blackmail is an...

Needed: state government by the state’s legislators Who makes our laws these days?

Burdett Loomis, a columnist and emeritus professor of political science at KU, lamented recently the demise of the legislature’s summer study committees. In recent...

Elections are a certain test for Kansas voters

Political storms are gathering for the coming elections, so forget that tired adage about quirky Kansas weather. It isn’t likely to change for awhile. The...

Kansas weather, cluttered with extremes

On one mid-afternoon, a woman paused in the supermarket parking lot to declare that the weather was perfectly splendid ‒ the kind of day,...

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...

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