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We float new walls; Cuba buys wheat from Europe

  In early 2015, Sen. Jerry Moran applauded the Obama Administration’s easing of U.S. sanctions against Cuba - without mentioning the president by name. Restoring trade with Cuba makes...

Mark Lysell, and creating an icon

On trips away from the Smoky Valley we are sometimes asked where we are from. More than one good soul has drawn a blank at “Lindsborg,” but...

From Kansas to Washington, the nightmare redux

Kansas is the Mother Shipton, the Madame Thebes, the Witch of Endor, and the low barometer of the nation. When anything is going to happen in...

More cards, more spluttering at standout legislators

The mail has brought us another slick one from the Kochs’ printing factory, a full-color complaint that State Sen. Randall Hardy had voted for “a $1.2...

Glen Suppes, his promise for the next generations

The Kansas School Superintendents Association has selected John Allison, the Olathe School District Superintendent, for its Superintendent of the Year, from among three finalists who included Glen...

A Court’s ruling, and footings in history

Several times over the past half-century, the Kansas courts, including the Supreme Court, have repeated a fundamental message: The quality of education in a...

Schools are helped by Potawatomi Nation

 History often has a way with irony. As Phoenix rose from the ashes of its predecessor, cultures and nations have, over the ages, continued...

Kansas’ new school finance: Fabrication and deceit

School finance in Kansas has moved from a sophisticated national model to a slow-witted script straight from the tunnel sewers in a Dickens tragedy...

Finding one source of legislative madness

 For those who wonder how things went so wrong in Topeka during the last legislative session, consider those supposedly in charge. Trouble began when...

The bigger Hastert story: a crime missing a perp

Anyone out there remember the Dennis Hastert scandal?   Hastert, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999-2007), was indicted in late May and...

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