Time for a check-up, Kansas. Recently we got some good news about mental health during the pandemic: Deaths by suicide declined in the United States by almost 6% last year. Kansas also saw a decline.…

Because of the pandemic and its restrictions, the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral at Windsor was less grand event than might once have been expected. Only 30 mourners attended. Television ensured that this private ceremony of…

Too many routine police encounters are ending with unarmed citizens being killed, with people of color disproportionately being targeted. Two shocking videos released last week, one depicting the shooting death of an unarmed 13-year-old boy,…

The seas are inexorably rising, and the Florida Legislature is tackling this by creating a Resilient Florida Grant Program in the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The bill creating the program, Senate Bill 1954, passed…

An unsustainable spending “arms race” is occurring among the 130 colleges that belong to the NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision. It is compromising their integrity and is often at odds with their academic missions. Because of…

Money is often the common denominator  between big business and politics. The more you give, the greater the access to bending the law in your favor. Typically such favors come in the form of tax…

What a difference a month makes. In March, we took Gov. Laura Kelly and her administration to task for the pace of vaccinations against COVID-19 in Kansas. We said that more people should be able…

The Des Moines Register on President Joe Biden’s U.S. infrastructure plan: The United States is the wealthiest country in the world. You wouldn’t know it from the condition of the systems that make it work.…

President Joe Biden says he wants to partly roll back the Republican tax cuts of 2017, including corporate tax reductions that amounted to a giveaway to some of the world’s richest entities. Reversing those reckless…

President Joe Biden’s massive American Jobs Plan is likely to come in two parts: a traditional transportation package as well as a domestic package that includes, among other priorities, universal prekindergarten. It’s is an education…