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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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
2 min
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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
5 min
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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
4 min
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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
5 min
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,...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
3 min
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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
5 min
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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
5 min
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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
5 min
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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
3 min
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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
2 min
05Jan 2025