Opinion

The office of the Kansas Board of Regents released an annual accounting of student enrollments in Kansas teacher education programs and numbers of students who completed programs that lead to teacher certification.

Last week, a bipartisan commission of former state lawmakers finished working on and recommended a solution to a long-standing problem: Kansas’s terrible legislative pay scale.Currently our state legislature, which is officially supposed to meet for only about 90 days—but which actually often involves much more work than that, frequently spread throughout the whole year—pays its members a base salary of only $27,000.

In June, Florida’s legislature passed (and governor Ron DeSantis signed) a bill transferring control of Gainesville Regional Utilities from the city’s government to the state’s.

One day in February 1889 a fire broke out along the Chicago, Kansas, & Nebraska Railway line near Mullenville.

Efforts to ban books in public schools and public libraries reached an all-time high in 2022 and show few signs of abating for 2023, according to the American Library Association.The recent movement to remove books appears to be a coordinated campaign taking place at both the state and local levels; it often targets books that address race, gender or both.

Fall harvest is in full swing on our central Kansas farm.Do you live to work or work to live?

By 2030, the Kansas labor force will need to fill 234,500 job openings but will likely only retain 186,000 new graduates from state institutions.

The issue of foreign investment and land purchases in Kansas is once again in the news.

Of all the headline-grabbing stories in the wake of the “chilling” raid of a community newspaper and two private residences in Marion this past summer, none was more important than the coverage of the affidavits the Marion police chief had signed to justify the search warrants.