Is the Republican Party an operation dedicated to smaller government and conservative victories? Or is it now a subsidiary of the Trump Organization? This is worth pondering, given that Lara Trump, the Republican National Committee’s…

While not an outright victory, Friday was a pretty good day for voting rights advocates in Kansas. After three years of legal wrangling, their efforts were largely affirmed by the Kansas Supreme Court. The high…

The result of Mexico’s presidential election, which was announced Sunday, is no surprise. Yet what happens next is still a cliffhanger. Claudia Sheinbaum will become the country’s next president but it is far from clear…

Pundits keep chirping about how voters want President Joe Biden to do something to bring prices down, particularly at the grocery store. Biden defenders claim that a president has few powers at their disposal to…

State Sen. Caryn Tyson apologized to Iola Council members Tuesday evening for saying Iola has the highest commercial property tax rates in the nation. Tyson made the accusation at Mildred’s May 9 town hall meeting.…

Childhood is a precious time in our development. We only get one and you often can’t get it back. A time when we’re the most vulnerable. A critical time where lessons are learned by our…

Tornados can touch down anywhere. They happen so frequently in Kansas they’ve become part of the lore. We’ve seen them in such art as “Tragic Prelude” in the Kansas Statehouse and the more synonymous film…

Last week, Gov. Laura Kelly made three groups of people plenty mad, likely with some crossover. First, Kelly vetoed a measure Friday that would have recognized “fetal personhood.” The measure ruled that from the moment…

When Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a ruling in April 2023 suspending the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, an abortion pill, Democrats were furious. How could a lone judge in small-town Texas deprive millions of…

A sure sign that you’re living in a dictatorship is that the government dictates what you can sing. That’s now the policy in Hong Kong, er, Little Beijing, as a court has endorsed the government’s…