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Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
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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Kansas LEOs sign pledge to assist ICE in deportations
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced today that Attorney General’s Office and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation signed an agreement...
17Feb 2025

When someone says they want to keep something out of the newspaper, doesn’t it make you ask: “Why?”
On the heels of a monumental national election in which Americans decidedly voted to seize back their government and force...
13Feb 2025

Kelly vetoes children’s sex change ban, Republicans pledge override
For the third time in as many years, Kansas’ Democrat Governor Larua Kelly has vetoed a bill that would penalize...
11Feb 2025

Poor, fat, expensive and dead: Why our food is Kansas’ biggest threat
The murder rate in the U.S. in 2023 was 5.7 per 100,000 people. The chance of being killed by a...
07Feb 2025

Kansas Senators to follow Trump with ‘no tax on tips’ proposal
Members of the Kansas Senate and US senator Roger Marshall will pull a page from the Trump Playbook on Monday,...
01Feb 2025

Bigger majorities may help GOP ban child sex change surgeries this session
Frontiers Media photo – Expanded Republican supermajorities delivered to the Kansas Legislature last November by voters appear poised to set...
27Jan 2025

Kansas Reflector pouts over being banned from the statehouse floor – from the statehouse floor
Monty Python satirizes the obsession with "repression" in the classic 1975 comedy "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" Straining for...
19Jan 2025

Monday’s New Era can’t come a moment too soon
Time, age and magnitude dictate that most of us can only remember a handful of true watershed moments for our...
17Jan 2025

Schmidt appointed to House Judiciary, Armed Services committees
Topeka Capital-Journal photo WASHINGTON, D.C. – Newly sworn-in Second District Congressman Derek Schmidt has been appointed to serve on the...
07Jan 2025

Storm hammers eastern half of state
A snowplow erupts into flames in Franklin County while on the job early Sunday morning/KOFO 1220 AM Most of the...
05Jan 2025