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Marshall, John
Profile from a different time
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...
Marshall, John
ACA enrollment opens; Trump hauls out a Kansas relic
President Trump has taken a page from the Sam
Brownback playbook, the one about wrecking
institutions by throttling their budgets. It’s from
the chapter entitled “Undermine and...
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Deanell Reese Tacha: A vivid history comes to Lindsborg
The Kansas Women Attorneys Association meets this week in Lindsborg – for the 26th consecutive year – and again has stretched the measure of...
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Walker pulls a ‘Brownback,’ angering his own GOP
Out on the national hustings, Scott Walker may be a darling
of the Republican right, but in Wisconsin, where he is governor,
he’s in trouble.
In the...
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Will legislators revive the sales tax on utilities?
There have been few big plans to fill the state’s immediate
$400 million budget shortfall. But one idea, first mentioned
in 2010 and quietly revived recently,...
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Tax cuts become a crushing local burden
In Kansas, a great flywheel has been set in motion, dragging the citizenry inexorably along the governor’s Glide Path to Zero, that no income...
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Fringe voters elect a crackpot legislature
Our elections are tailored today for the zealous voter and the fringe campaign.
Consider: Of citizens over age 18 (and eligible to vote), fewer than...
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Bush is next to sing the far-right love ballad
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, brother of one president and son of another, is a moderate Republican turning red. He will deepen his...
