Opinion

Since 2017, GoodRx has helped millions of people find deals on prescription drugs via an app and website. But what its customers may not have known is that the Santa Monica-based health company had also…

Parked outside of Paul Porter’s 140-year-old building is his electric car.  Not that I expected a horse and buggy. But the contrast reminded me of the challenge of bridging the physical and philosophical divides between…

Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech really highlighted more about the state of the Republican Congress, and that state is decidedly raucous. As Biden delivered his spiel, he sparred verbally with (dis)honorable hecklers, who…

President Joe Biden focused mostly on domestic issues in his State of the Union address Tuesday, but when he did turn to foreign policy he had strong words of support for Ukraine. He assured Ukraine’s…

In defending the perceived threat to election ballot boxes in Kansas, House Elections Committee chairman Rep. Pat Proctor, R-Leavenworth, likened the dangers of them being vandalized to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.  “I bet…

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley doesn’t agree with President Joe Biden very often. When it happens, we take notice.  Well, it happened Tuesday night at the State of the Union address.  Amid all the tiresome, partisan…

President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address was a mixed bag for congressional Republicans. On the one hand, he wasn’t shy about challenging them (nor were they reluctant to push back at him.)…

Two years ago I wrote an opinion piece for the Kansas Reflector in which I argued that the Legislature should be celebrating Kansas public schools, rather than trying to tear them apart through voucher plans.…

The new year has once again been marked with numerous acts of gun violence, including multiple mass shootings.  The scale of gun violence our country faces is overwhelming — and it feels like with each…

On Jan. 1, 2023, Kansas’ state sales tax on food items in the supermarket lowered from 6.5% (the second-highest rates in the country) to 4%. Most Kansans saw immediate savings; however, it is complicated and…