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,...
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...
Recent election flops in Salina and Saline County are reason
to wonder why we continue to fiddle with electronic voting.
In November, a so-called “malfunction” left...
Indiana, Arkansas – Kansas had them beat by a
couple of years. Our legislature passed a religious
freedom law in 2013, granting Kansans the right to
discriminate...
Two years ago, we offered an assessment of the Kansas
Legislature with the headline, A sinister session. “The temp-
tation is strong,” we said, “to describe...
The William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Crystal
Bridges, Alice Walton’s contribution to the heritage of
American art, are two magnificent antidotes to the credo, in
some...