As spring assessments and graduation festivities signal the end of the school year in Kansas, state legislators are crafting bills that could put the future of public education in Kansas at risk. As Kansas teachers…

Ty Masterson is feeling cranky about Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly.  Kelly’s veto pen is running hot these days — she has vetoed 15 bills during this session of the Kansas Legislature, the most of any…

What bride wants to be pelted with butterfly corpses? My neighbor told me this harrowing scenario recently played out at her granddaughter’s wedding. As the guests filed out of the church to await the newlyweds’…

This session, lawmakers in Topeka decided to take on the child care crisis and proposed a series of sweeping changes to our child care system. Those of us in the early childhood field truly appreciate…

On Monday, Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a tax cut plan that overwhelmingly favors the wealthy to the disadvantage of the less than. Kelly singled out Republicans’ 5.15% flat tax proposal for its inherent disparities. If…

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is making a ransom demand. His hostage is the economy and America’s credibility. Mr. McCarthy has threatened that House Republicans will refuse to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling,…

Earlier this week Annie Vogel dropped by a flier announcing the 125th anniversary of Savonburg’s Covenant Evangelical Church on April 30. “Come help us rejoice!” it said. No need to be a member. No need…

In 2019, the governors of Kansas and Missouri both committed to a truce, pausing the pointless, destructive tax border war. Prior to that, Kansas City-area companies would regularly leverage millions of dollars from their respective…

I’m sorry that a settlement was reached in the giant landmark defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News. I mean, I’m not entirely sorry. It’s nice that Dominion will get compensated for…

Recently, I spent an hour sorting through newspaper stories from the mid-2000s about the sale of a regional drugstore chain. The week before, I skimmed articles from the 1960s about racial discrimination at a popular…