I’ve always been amazed that total solar eclipses are possible. The sun, an 870,000-mile-wide ball of gas over 90 million miles away from us gets completely blocked by the moon, a 2,100-mile-wide ball of rock…

In Kansas, you can parent your children any way you like.  Just so long as you do that parenting like a conservative Republican.  That’s the message coming from Topeka these days, anyway. Just a few…

In my few years on the periphery of Kansas political life, I had the opportunity to work on a governor’s staff, to be a legislative assistant to the speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives…

Walking across the parking lot coming from Aldi, where I had picked up food for the next few days, my heart was struggling. It was sunny and warm, and I was wearing a sundress and…

Wagon wheel impressions still mark the earth of the western Kansas prairie, where, beginning in 1877, Black former slaves journeyed across the plains. Those ruts, a physical reminder of the former slaves’ brave and challenging…

July 26, 2023, is a day I will never forget. It’s the day my daughter, Reagan, went into cardiac arrest at the Sunflower State Games at Washburn University. During the game, Reagan came out of…

The debate over implementing a flat income tax in Kansas appears to have reached its conclusion, at least in this legislative session. Earlier this year, Kansas Republicans proposed a single income tax rate of 5.25%…

Until recently, I sent my daughters a “love you, sleep tight” text every night. I started when my firstborn went off to college. She rarely answered calls and had no interest in email. The one…

Finally, there was the explanation everyone was clamoring for but no one was expecting: Kate Middleton, the wife of Prince William, the heir to the British throne, reappeared in public after a three-month absence, telling…

Expanding Medicaid in Kansas will never have a chance as long as untruths are allowed to pass as truths. For example: “I do look at this as Medicaid Expansion as socialized medicine, and the United…