The signs were becoming impossible to ignore. Amy Utley was in a rut.   “Our agreement was I would work from 10 a.m. to 5,” she said.   She nervously giggles, burying her head in…

As I write, the Kansas House Committee on Judiciary is about to hear HB 2348, which would eliminate tenure at higher education institutions governed by the State of Kansas.   The bill emerged from a…

Kansas has more than a few challenges these days.  Do we need to add a heaping dose of self-inflicted brain drain to the list?  Steven Lovett seems to think so.  Lovett is the general counsel…

I spent eight years on the Kansas Intellectual/Developmental Disability waiver waitlist.  In my years on the list, I experienced more psychiatric hospital stays than I can count or even remember. I survived a suicide attempt.…

If there was any doubt President Donald Trump believes he is no longer bound by history or laws — either American or international — it was eclipsed by his astounding proposal that the United States…

On Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly granted aides of Elon Musk access to the department’s payments system, which handles more than $5 trillion and sensitive data on Social Security and Medicare benefits and grants.…

Your representatives in Washington should have spent the weekend screaming bloody hell.  They didn’t.  It’s kind of easy to understand why. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas, along with Sens. Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt of…

Tuesday afternoon Register reporters Vickie Moss and Sarah Haney and I began calling those we thought would be affected by the news that by 5 p.m. that day the federal government was going to freeze…

As I leave the Register — and journalism — to start a new adventure with Thrive Allen County, I’ve been reflecting on the past 28 years in the industry.  My career started in 1997 with…

I don’t live in Chicago or follow the news there, but it didn’t take long for social media to deliver a video of Chicago police officers pulling a live coyote out of a refrigerated display…