• Signaling and substance at odds
    Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson recently affirmed that, with the Republican legislative majority even stronger after the 2024 elections,…
    December 13, 2024

  • Partisanship gets a bad rap
    There’s a mayoral election taking place in Wichita, Kansas’s largest stand-alone city, right now. Also, strikes have been declared…
    June 30, 2023

  • Being realistic about helping our rural minority
    Kansas’s rural identity is struggling. Partly this is because it’s not entirely accurate. The state’s population of 2.9 million…
    January 16, 2023

  • Kansas’ wide open spaces limit transportation options
    This holiday season, as Kansas receives from the national government a Christmas present of $2.6 billion dedicated to infrastructure…
    December 23, 2021

  • The confusion over ‘choice’ in Kansas
    That the beliefs which political parties express — like the Republican party and “conservatism” or the Democratic party and…
    August 13, 2021

  • What Bob Dole can teach Roger Marshall
    The recent death of Walter Mondale, vice president to President Jimmy Carter, and a presidential candidate himself in 1984,…
    April 30, 2021

  • Appreciating the conversations beyond the page
    Last month, I had a visitor to my office here at Friends University in Wichita. I knew who he…
    March 26, 2021

  • What the plastic bag debate says about Kansas’s cities
    Those throw-away plastic bags are in the news. Recently a bill was passed by a state House committee that…
    March 6, 2020

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