Wipe the docket clean, judges. Disgruntled parents come first. Clear your schedule, school board members. You’ve got some unhappy students. Don’t think about enacting public safety measures, county commissioners. It could get you sued. All…

Moral panics don’t produce good policy. Neither does banning things. The current fracas about critical race theory on the right is just such a panic, and if legislators don’t stand up for common sense, they…

These days, three factions make up the Kansas Republican Party: Conservatives, far right conservatives, and those who are so conservative “they’re borderline libertarians.” At least, that’s the opinion of Rep. Kent Thompson, who represents the…

“My Republican colleagues will not talk about Medicaid expansion. They just won’t. I don’t understand it.” So said first-term Representative Christina Haswood this past week during a discussion of the 2021 legislative session, responding to…

TOPEKA — Republicans in the Senate and House punctuated the close of the 2021 legislative session Wednesday by asking Gov. Laura Kelly to cut off federal support for out-of-work Kansans and failing to override the…

Recent events across our region — a local disagreement in Wichita, a state-wide argument in Missouri, a veto override in Topeka with national implications — push me to reflect upon a seemingly straightforward but actually…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kansas passed proposals by early Saturday to ban COVID-19 vaccine passports, limit efforts to track down the close contacts of people with the coronavirus and provide up to…

Kansas lawmakers spent too much time this year debating a long list of unnecessary and provocative proposals, including banning transgender student athletes and making it harder to vote. Yet the Legislature has failed to pass…

TOPEKA, Kansas — Republicans trying to push through a ban on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports fell short Monday of overriding Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of the bill. The tally was one…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas House member was arrested for possible misdemeanor battery in what authorities said Friday was an incident involving a student while he was substitute teaching at a public school in…