Texas and Kansas, (Peas in a pod?)
Mimi Swartz, an executive editor at the invigorating Texas Monthly magazine, reminded us recently that Texas has, almost over night, lost its seat at...
On a return to good government
Last week we lamented the loss of our ability to dream, to put the possible back on our list of things to do. It was the...
DEPARTMENT OF BASEBALL: High science, big nuisance
Televised major league baseball has become a great lectern for the broadcaster and a chore for the viewer; it has taken a great sport...
Kansas can’t be fixed with alibis and lies
State Sen. Rick Wilborn, whose district includes Lindsborg and the Smoky Valley, has mailed to constituents a newsletter proclaiming, among other things, that the Kansas Legislature...
Salina sales tax reveals a statewide issue
In Salina, voters will decide by mail ballot whether to increase the city’s sales tax, an issue forced on that community by the malignant...
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH: Sports lingo and other crimes
DURING a recent televised basketball battle between the San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors, one of the announcers swooned on about the Warrior’s...
More news from the Rabbit Hole…
This week’s Mad Hatter trophy goes to the Kansas Senate, for following Alice into Wonderland and approving plans for that miracle pipeline to bring...
The real Republican problem: Trump can’t be controlled
It was a stunning lesson in irony.
When the grumpy old patricians of the Grand Old Party trotted out Mitt Romney to denounce Donald Trump, the...
When Republicans started to destroy their own
Fratricide is legendary in the Kansas Republican party, a recurring affliction since before the progressives’ and Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose insurgency more than a...
Why Topeka cannot connect
For a long time after statehood, Kansas climbed upward, a state and its citizenry moving ahead. Following the Civil War, new inventions had lightened...