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Dane Hicks

Dane Hicks is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidate School at Quantico, VA. He is the author of novels "The Skinning Tree" and "A Whisper For Help." As publisher of the Anderson County Review in Garnett, KS., he is a recipient of the Kansas Press Association's Boyd Community Service Award as well as more than 60 awards for excellence in news, editorial and photography.
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Trump takes Maduro; implications for Kansas likely to follow oil markets
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Trump takes Maduro; implications for Kansas likely to follow oil markets

  • Dane Hicks
  • January 3, 2026
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States carried out overnight military strikes in Venezuela and has taken President Nicolás Maduro into custody, U.S. officials said early […]

Kansas Reflector’s Soros-connected parent collects record cash in 2024, but loses even more
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Kansas Reflector’s Soros-connected parent collects record cash in 2024, but loses even more

  • Dane Hicks
  • January 2, 2026
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — States Newsroom, the nonprofit online media organization bankrolling left-biased Internet publications like The Kansas Informer in multiple states, spiked a near […]

Prairie Band Potawatomi picks criminals over law & order in ICE contract dust up
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Prairie Band Potawatomi picks criminals over law & order in ICE contract dust up

  • Dane Hicks
  • December 15, 2025
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Tribal Chairman Joseph Rupnick addresses the firing of Prairie Band LLC staff over the ICE contract./Youtube capture The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has picked the […]

Can Kansas education save itself after the Laura Kelly years?
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Can Kansas education save itself after the Laura Kelly years?

  • Dane Hicks
  • December 13, 2025
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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly entered office in 2019 promising stability in school finance and improvements in student outcomes. Instead, data from state agencies, national assessments, […]

To hurt Trump, media obscures “affordability”
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To hurt Trump, media obscures “affordability”

  • Dane Hicks
  • December 11, 2025
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Does the mainstream media hate Donald Trump enough to lie about the U.S. economy in order to damage Republicans’ chances of holding congressional majorities and […]

Medicaid-boosted salaries put SEKMHC execs in top 1% of earners in Kansas, USA
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Medicaid-boosted salaries put SEKMHC execs in top 1% of earners in Kansas, USA

  • Dane Hicks
  • December 8, 2025
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Salaries paid to executives at the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center pushed those top leaders into the celebrated “1 percent” of wage earners not just […]

George Soros’ tightens funding tap on Kansas Left as upheaval plagues Open Society Foundation
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George Soros’ tightens funding tap on Kansas Left as upheaval plagues Open Society Foundation

  • Dane Hicks
  • December 4, 2025
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Left-leaning advocacy organizations active in Kansas elections and policy debates like Loud Light, Kansas Appleseed, and groups involved in multi-state election litigation—are receiving fewer direct […]

Accused Nemaha County priest killer competency hearing Thursday
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Accused Nemaha County priest killer competency hearing Thursday

  • Dane Hicks
  • November 30, 2025
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SENECA – A competency hearing scheduled in Nemaha District Court for Thursday will determine the legal course from this point forward for a man accused […]

Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center nabs more Medicaid dollars, boosts exec’s pay to nearly $900,000
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Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center nabs more Medicaid dollars, boosts exec’s pay to nearly $900,000

  • Dane Hicks
  • November 27, 2025
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The executive salaries at the Iola-based Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center which prompted the organization’s virtual defunding by the six counties in its service region […]

Emanual Cleaver: The unsocialist socialist
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Emanual Cleaver: The unsocialist socialist

  • Dane Hicks
  • November 23, 2025
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KANSAS CITY — Missouri Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II raised few eyebrows Friday when he cast a “nay” vote on a House resolution formally condemning the […]

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    We will welcome them with open arms as long as they leave their east coast attitudes and voting record in…

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