After a day of skiing in December, my then-13-year-old son made a pitch to me while we were sitting in a hot tub in Colorado. Surrounded by knee-deep snow, he asked if I would let…

Back in 2012, actor Jon Hamm, a St. Louis native and a die-hard Cardinals fan, appeared at a Wiffle ball event at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., hosted by three celebrity Royals fans: actors…

Governor Laura Kelly recently vetoed House Bill 2285, which would have restricted the ability of public health officials to respond to public health emergencies in the state of Kansas.  While Republican legislators will be unable…

This past year has been a year of tremendous growth for Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center. We’ve expanded services, hired many new therapists, developed new departments, and become a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC).…

When the Kansas Legislature spent its 2023 session focused on the culture wars — with bills aimed at keeping transgender kids out of sports competition, and penalizing doctors who provide gender-affirming care — we occasionally…

The Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing birth-control pills to be sold without a prescription. Some conservatives are raising predictable objections, but others appear to grasp the obvious: If the anti-abortion-rights movement truly is…

Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health-care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If the experience…

Russia’s Vladimir Putin launched another missile barrage on Ukraine early Tuesday, and thanks to Western air defenses Kyiv says it took down 18 projectiles, including six hypersonic missiles. If true, this is another testament that…

There oughta be a law that restricts legislators  to voting on single issues instead of the current  mash-up method. It’s bad policy that leads to worse lawmaking. The recent Senate Bill 8 is a textbook…

If you’re attending a college graduation ceremony this month, you might notice something about the students on campus: there aren’t as many as there used to be. Some 2.5 million fewer Americans are enrolled in…