Opinion

While I recently ran through the top Senate races of 2020 and the parties’ prospects, I did not include Kansas on the list. That omission — an intentional one — brought plenty of reaction, so…

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson made national news for all the wrong reasons when the state became the first in the nation to allow concerts and live events to resume this week. Inexplicably, the governor’s “Show…

If all goes really, really well, we can expect to have a vaccine for COVID-19 sometime in 2021, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Scientists are…

WASHINGTON — For a moment this spring, Congress rose to meet the challenge of a national emergency and passed four economic rescue bills in less than two months. Somehow, it seemed, the coronavirus had revived…

I have been asked a lot about social isolation associated with shelter at home orders and social distancing causing anxiety and depression since Governor Kelly’s emergency declaration due to coronavirus on March 12. Clearly, this…

We have made clear in previous commentary that mail-in voting should play an important role in our democracy going forward. Although the state Democratic Party has smartly adapted that strategy for their primary this month,…

There will be a lot less “Pomp and Circumstance” this May in Kansas and across the country. Most graduating students won’t have the opportunity to put on those goofy gowns and caps and then join…

In the past several weeks, our world has been rocked. The COVID-19 pandemic changed practically every aspect of our lives. Together, we’ve faced extraordinary and unprecedented challenges. This very serious virus has attacked the elderly,…

How to respond to this pandemic has never been as simple as choosing to risk contracting COVID-19 or go out of business.  And the damage from those promoting this false dichotomy is that it works…

Simply put, I hate ticks. Having said that, ticks are a part of nature, albeit a frustrating one. I immensely enjoy traipsing the outdoors all times of the year, and particularly now that it’s warm…