With the state budget still wildly out of balance, the public schools facing drastic new cuts, disabled and sick Kan-sans wondering whether they will get care, and the Medicaid program beggared by still deeper cuts,…

It was inevitable. Faced with a budget crunch that he and his fellow lawmakers refuse to deal with responsibly, Rep. Steve Brunk of Bel Aire wants a constitutional amendment that would arbitrarily limit spending increases…

Faced with a politically forced slowdown in health reform, President Obama says he will concentrate on creating jobs and bringing down the deficit.To which economists will say, make up your mind. More jobs or less…

President Obama’s new emphasis on nuclear energy is good news for Burlington, southeast Kansas and the national effort to become energy independent. Taking the last of these benefits first, nuclear power plants offer the United…

Looking for an expanding industry? Try wind power. It was only a few years ago that energy experts dismissed the impact of wind- or solar-generated electricity. Would never amount to anything significant, they said. Now…

Let’s accentuate the positive in the State of the Union address that President Barack Obama made last night. He proposed: — Building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country and…

Some 15 years ago, in response to the Supreme Court edict known as the Olmstead Decision, the Legislature of Kansas determined to close most of the state institutions and to transfer the patients living there…

Two Kansas executives talked turkey about money yesterday: Dr. Craig Neuenswander, superintendent of USD 257 schools, and Mark Parkinson, governor of Kansas. Both were talking about the same dollars. Those that pay for the education…

If a federal health care initiative does come to pass, the Kansas Health Policy Authority will be ready. One of the assignments for the Authority is to dovetail state health care functions with the new…

Shortly after I was discharged from the Army Air Forces in 1946, Rep. John Dingell of Michigan introduced the first national health care bill ever to come before Congress. Sixty-four years after Rep. Dingell’s bill…