Let’s not forget mid-April, the month of “before.” Mid-April: that carefree interlude in state government when legislators were content to take sport in the...
Kansas has added a new process to local school finance:
groveling.
At the governor’s direction, the legislature embedded significant
cuts into their block grant edict – one...
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...
