In June, something extraordinary happened in Wichita. About 1,500 Kansans packed a town hall at Wichita State University to engage in a once regular but now rare political conversation — one that was open to…

Dear editor, What if all of a sudden you couldn’t eat or drink any of your favorite foods, drinks? Use your favorite toothpaste? Take the meds the doctor has you on for your heart, your…

Every time I hear that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is cutting something to save money, I think, yes, you may, but the undertakers will make money when you cut the things that…

President Trump’s attempt to fire the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook is a grab for power in defiance of the nation’s laws, and if it succeeds, it will be to the detriment of the nation’s…

This week could mark the beginning of the end of the Federal Reserve as we have known it. President Trump has been upfront in his belief that the Federal Reserve should be subordinate to his…

Should Kansas send National Guard troops to join the military occupation of Washington D.C.? It’s not yet an issue in the campaign to replace Gov. Laura Kelly in next year’s election. But it should be.…

Not long ago it would have been hard to imagine a Republican President demanding government ownership in a private company, but here we are. And now the Trump Administration is toying with a tax on…

IOLA — Nathan Fawson is a man under fire. And he wants you to know he is grateful. Sitting in a consultation room painted a calming shade of neutral, Fawson — CEO of the Southeast…

Four Kansas school districts — Shawnee Mission, Olathe, Kansas City, Kansas, and Topeka — are now under federal investigation after a Washington dark money group filed a complaint.  On paper, they’ll say it’s about Title…

For more than 160 years, mail-in voting has been a fixture of American democracy — especially in Kansas. During the Civil War, Union soldiers stationed far from home were granted the right to vote by…