As thousands of families in our state are forced to stretch their budgets further and further, several of my colleagues in the Legislature are trying to make it harder for Kansans to get the help…

On behalf of Iola Industries, I would like to thank the City of Iola for their support of the project we have proposed to the Department of Wildlife and Parks and the Kansas legislature. I…

These days, we look back on McCarthyism and the Red Scare of the 1950s and wonder: Why did so many good people just stand by as Sen. Joseph McCarthy wrecked so many innocent people’s careers…

On Wednesday, the House K-12 Education Budget Committee passed a massive voucher bill that will gut the state’s public education system if made into law. In advance of the vote the legislators entertained a Georgia…

Governor Laura Kelly mentioned Kansas’ water crisis in her 2023 State of the State Address, but so far she has proposed few specific policies to alleviate the problem. Will this be the year that Kansas…

Gov. Kelly’s plan calls for the immediate elimination of the state’s sales tax on food, diapers and feminine hygiene products. It would create an annual sales tax holiday for school supplies and cut taxes on…

Parked outside of Paul Porter’s 140-year-old building is his electric car.  Not that I expected a horse and buggy. But the contrast reminded me of the challenge of bridging the physical and philosophical divides between…

Two years ago I wrote an opinion piece for the Kansas Reflector in which I argued that the Legislature should be celebrating Kansas public schools, rather than trying to tear them apart through voucher plans.…

The new year has once again been marked with numerous acts of gun violence, including multiple mass shootings.  The scale of gun violence our country faces is overwhelming — and it feels like with each…

On Jan. 1, 2023, Kansas’ state sales tax on food items in the supermarket lowered from 6.5% (the second-highest rates in the country) to 4%. Most Kansans saw immediate savings; however, it is complicated and…