After describing the increased disrepair affecting many of the countys secondary roads a consequence of the construction project currently jamming parts of U.S. 169 Allen County commissioners were able to secure a verbal…
Compromise, common sense and listening to all sides of an issue dont seem like countercultural values. Certainly, in the home I grew up in they werent. My parents belonged to separate political parties, and those…
WASHINGTON (AP) With no weekend breakthrough to end a prolonged partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump is standing firm in his border wall funding demands and newly empowered House Democrats are planning to step…
You have to wonder who is calling the shots when the day after conservative talk show hosts roundly criticized President Trump, he did an about-face on whether to accept bipartisan legislation that would keep the…
The latest defections from the Kansas Republican Party two Johnson County legislators show politicians in some corners of the state trying to catch up with changes in the voters they need to win…
When conservatives decry judicial activism, the target is inevitably a liberal judge whose rulings reach beyond interpreting law to making law. But misguided activist judges arent limited to the political left as last weeks federal…
The Kansas Legislature showed its tendency to be both more conservative and more liberal on Monday. The selection of House leaders took the Republican and Democratic factions a bit more to the right and left,…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) Still stinging from an election loss, Wisconsin Republicans on Monday tried to push through measures that would weaken the incoming Democratic administration and allow outgoing Republican Gov. Scott Walker to make…
MORAN With the elections in the rearview mirror, Congress members will return to Washington, D.C., next week for what typically is considered a lame-duck session. It could be an eventful one for Kansas farmers.…
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Attorney General Jeff Sessions was pushed out after enduring more than a year of blistering and personal attacks from President Donald Trump, who inserted in his place a Republican Party loyalist with…