To the editor, On Aug. 10, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at reducing public trust in childhood vaccine guidelines.  The order, “Delivering Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for Americans,” recommends fewer vaccines…

This August marks the twentieth anniversary of my family’s arrival in Kansas, after I was hired to teach at Friends University in Wichita. After two decades here, what have I learned? That’s a complicated question…

Coloradans know that public lands can support both a thriving energy economy and world-class wildlife habitat. Our landscapes fuel local economies through energy production while also sustaining elk herds, trout streams, clean drinking water, and…

President Donald Trump and his dangerous health secretary Bobby Kennedy Jr. struck another blow against public health by issuing an executive order intending to space out childhood vaccinations and to separate out the common measles,…

Last month, the House passed the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 with bipartisan support, as evidenced by a 308-117 vote. It will now move to the Senate for consideration. President Donald Trump has stated he…

A week ago, Kansans cast their most consequential vote of the last 70 years or so, when they decided to preserve the integrity and independence of the state courts by rejecting a constitutional amendment that…

Sen. Rand Paul is a medical doctor, an ophthalmologist, but he has an unhealthy obsession with Dr. Anthony Fauci and now has rigged a ridiculous contempt of Congress charge against Fauci, who was the ubiquitous,…

Missouri Republicans have been making the case for years that our state constitution is getting hijacked by out-of-state interests.  Gov. Mike Kehoe said it plainly in a video backing Amendment 4, the proposal that would…

At 4 a.m. Saturday, U.S. Senate Republicans dragged the ethically riddled nomination of Todd Blanche across the finish line, narrowly confirming him as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. Oh, wait, that’s the role Blanche, who…

I landed my first real, albeit minimum wage job at the tender age of 15, and one of my lasting memories was how the paycheck came with a boatload of deductions. Money was withheld for…