Opinion

The lack of security was the predominant theme at Tuesday’s forum concerning the  $9.95 million bond issue to expand and renovate a section of the Allen County Courthouse. After 22 years of being warned the…

A long time ago, when my children were little, I found out our babysitter, a low-income woman with a child of her own, had been taking them to the local park, where they all got…

Last week, a bipartisan commission of former state lawmakers finished working on and recommended a solution to a long-standing problem: Kansas’s terrible legislative pay scale. Currently our state legislature, which is officially supposed to meet…

The road to renewal in Kansas runs through a single political party: the Republican one. While Democrats have a traditionally wide-ranging coalition — all the way from free-market capitalists to democratic socialists and beyond —…

Earlier this year, I shared with Kansans that I had been diagnosed with breast cancer. I also shared that I expected to make a full recovery. Following surgery and several radiation treatments, I am thrilled…

At least 11 Americans were among the hundreds killed in the weekend attack in Israel, which has begun striking back at Hamas. The invasion, planned with an assist from Iran, ought to wake up both…

Borrowing is expensive again, as anyone who has tried to buy a car or home lately can tell you. The interest rate on 10-year Treasury bonds, the benchmark for home loans, is hovering around 4.75%,…

Even 72 hours after it started, the bloodbath perpetrated against Israel by Hamas — the death toll is 900 and rising — retains its power to shock. If anything, the sheer criminality of the largest…

The state of Kansas is flush with cash. Gov. Laura Kelly announced last week that the Department of Revenue took in $42 million more in taxes during September than officials originally expected — a total…

New York City mayor Eric Adams wrapped up a four-day visit to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia this weekend. While abroad, Adams praised his hometown’s “Empire State of Mind” and promoted the Big Apple as a…