Kansans are about to learn what this Kansas farm boy learned as chief of staff to senator and congressman Pat Roberts over 25 years in Washington, D.C: The federal workforce is composed of hardworking, dedicated and needed public servants who improve the lives of every American.
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Let me tell you about a visit I made to the Library of Congress the first week of January. Specifically, to the library’s American Folklife Center. I was following the trail of a prairie balladeer named Myra Hull.
Fresh off citizen vitriol for rising property taxes during their 2024 campaigns, a fortified Republican super-majority Kansas Legislature began loading their prized horses into the starting gate of this year’s Property Tax Derby.
Recently both the Kansas Senate and House of Representatives heard testimony relative to the anti-trans bill criminalizing medical practices that would help young people align with their mental gender. This is now the fourth attempt in Kansas for a law that readily passed on first attempt in many other Republican-majority states several years ago.
The first bill that the Kansas Legislature sent to Gov. Laura Kelly this year didn’t lower property taxes.
During last year’s presidential campaign, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris seemed to disagree on quite a few things. One thing they agreed on -- Trump reiterated his position in a speech in Las Vegas on January 26 -- is that the federal government should stop demanding income tax payments on tips.
This week the city commission took up one of the hottest issues that crosses its desk each year, and it wasn’t a budget issue. Make no mistake, the budget is a difficult discussion every single year, and it will be again when budget season arrives.
In the public debate over Medicaid expansion in Kansas, a critical fact often gets lost: Large numbers of residents already depend on the program.
President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali, the tallest peak in the country, has resulted in lots of discussion. While for some, such renaming might seem less important than the big problems the country faces, there is a formal process in the United States for renaming places, and that process is taken seriously.