politics

Kansas has not elected a governor from the Democratic party since Kathleen Sebelius, in 2002. Sebelius had been elected and reelected as Insurance Commissioner...

If we learn anything from the so-called “debates” among Republican candidates for Kansas governor, it’s that the party has tightened its tent. The staged debates...

  The nasty label of “liberal” has been stuck on those who favor public schools, public highways, Social Security with simpler programs of Medicare and Medicaid, and such...

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...

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...

The Kansas Women Attorneys Association meets this week in Lindsborg – for the 26th consecutive year – and again has stretched the measure of...

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...

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,...

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...

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...