The Kris Kobach anti-immigration wing of the Republican Party is drowning as a tsunami of Latino votes swept Barack Obama to an electoral landslide. The current trend, if the Republicans do not abandon their mean-spirited attitude toward Hispanics, …
Kansas is the only state in the nation that provides no public funding of the arts. Soon, we may be the only state that provides little or no public funding of its historic sites. That is notoriety we …
It’s prediction time — from national to local races — with just about a week before the general election. As my breakfast group will tell you, I usually win my bets.
How Kansas Sen. Kay Wolf, a Prairie Village Republican, can be accused of changing her spots is beyond me. She is standing …
The community will miss Shawnee Mission school Superintendent Gene Johnson, who is retiring at the end of this school year after 44 years in education. Johnson was the eternal optimist with the right kind of attitude. Those traits …
Mission’s effort to ban cellphone use by drivers within its city limits is likely to end up dead on arrival. So what about a statewide ban? I am opposed to the idea, but if the ban should be …
In an unusual move in Johnson County politics, two longtime Republican political leaders, John Vratil of Leawood and Tim Owens of Overland …
Everyone knows by now that the next president of the United States will be determined by the outcome of a dozen swing states. All the others get to sit out the campaign as if they did not exist. …
Where is the outrage over Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto last year of $700,000 in state aid to the Kansas Arts Commission? Why have we not heard of arts programs being shut down, with the KAC going out of …
There is an epidemic of suicides in Johnson County. We may not be used to hard times, so we’re not as prepared …
Johnson County has not elected a Democratic state senator since 1976. So to say any Democratic candidate for that office from this county has an uphill fight is to put it mildly. Juanita Roy, the Democratic candidate facing …
U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder’s free-pass days may be behind him. Certainly, Yoder will draw stiff Democratic opposition in his re-election race in …
While everyone is focused on taxes, budgets, and abortions, there is so much more going on under the radar with the ultra-conservative Kansas Legislature. A statewide smoking ban, an amended statute to allow for concealed weapons in public …
I will try to keep an open mind about Sam Brownback’s and Paul Ryan’s “bold” experiment in tax reform. But I just hope their experiments are not a Trojan horse for the unquestionably “radical” ideas of the Kochs …
Beware Americans for Prosperity and all conservatives who want to slash funding of public schools, Already next year, school districts will receive …
It is kind of sad that across this country, including right here in Kansas, millions of RINOs — Republicans in Name Only …
Perhaps up to a thousand hungry Johnson County children were given meals this summer who otherwise would have had too little for lunch. This is in Johnson County, the so-called Golden Ghetto. This was startling enough. But then …
Former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves, who was extremely popular when he served from 1995-2003, says he feels like he is bringing a knife to a gunfight.
First, the good news.
The Kansas Health Institute has nailed it.