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JOHN MARSHALL
State aid is life for local schools
The big chore confronting the 2018 Kansas Legislature is
a long, grinding march into the matted jungle thicket of local
school finance. Its landscape is clotted...
The schemes of desperate politicians
Why is Dale Dennis the patron saint of local schools in
Kansas – and why are a handful of top Kansas legislators
out to persecute him?
Dennis,...
Profile from a different time
Editor -
Former Kansas Senator Bob Dole was honored a couple
of weeks ago with the Congressional Gold Medal, a ceremony
that presented a chilling contrast – a...
Federal tax cuts to finance Kansas recovery?
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Kansas legislators must stop singing sad songs as though
they were composed by someone else. Of course the House
and Senate face enormous challenges, most of...
Trump, Kansas and slavery’s wicked cousin
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Kansas has a peculiar link to the furor that President
Trump kicked up when he junked DACA, revived it,
throttled it, then added eviction notices for...
DEPARTMENT OF PATRIOTISM: Taxes are necessary, crucial
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An election year will bring another cycle of bloat, the tortured
patterns of illusion, bluff and fiction, and with fragments
of truth scattered here and there....
A good hard freeze is not a bad thing
In Des Moines on New Year’s Eve the wind chill hit 31
below, and officials closed the ice skating rink.
In central Kansas, the recent freeze...
Brownback exeunt: An office at loose ends
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It seems for the moment that Kansas is a state with two
governors: Sam Brownback and Jeff Colyer. Brownback
officially holds the office but with a...
Why denounce bailouts, our staff of life?
It’s always a treat to be lectured by politicians who
denounce government aid. From time to time, they will
drag out their old harangue about the...
Christmas, our season of light
At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing
than cold. The days are short as a dream. The sun begins to
lose...