(July 3, 2025) – Kansas hospitals appreciated a recent invitation from Senator Jerry Moran (R-KS) to join a virtual town hall to discuss the Budget Reconciliation Bill. The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is now headed to President Trump for his signature.
Kansans now confront a “big, beautiful bill” approved by 218 Republican puppets in the U.S. House, and then signed into law by a convicted felon who was found guilty of sexual abuse, and who has faced multiple criminal cases over the past few years. Many of his indictments went to the core principles of our democracy. Unlike the average American, he has been given free pass after free pass by a Supreme Court that exists primarily to do his bidding — never mind right and wrong.
Allow me a prediction: At some point, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility planned by CoreCivic in Leavenworth will imprison a man or woman on baseless charges. That person will be a legal resident of the United States, or perhaps even a full citizen.
Three major global ranking agencies recently released their annual reports. On June 18, Times Higher Education (THE) released its Impact Rankings and US News released its popular Best Global Universities Rankings. Then QS released their World University Rankings (WUR) on June 19. A fourth Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is also released annually and is the most objective in focusing on academic and research metrics rather than historical reputation.
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While attending the 2025 National Association of Social Work’s Annual Conference in June, I received an email from U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, praising President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” as a transformative legislative package that will prevent economic disaster and uplift American families.
“A government burdens the religious exercise of parents,” Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito writes on behalf of the court’s majority in Mahmoud v. Taylor, “when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses ‘a very real threat of undermining’ the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill.”
