As national attention focuses on violent confrontations tied to anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis, a Kansas City–area nonprofit promoting community reporting of federal immigration enforcement has […]
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.
GOP governor candidates spar on unity, careerism, STAR bonds in first big pitch for state’s highest office
“Old hands” on the political stage in Friday afternoons Kansas Republican Governor’s race debate traded barbs with political newcomers, with both camps agreeing on much […]
SEKMHC trustees suspend Fawson following state legislative appearance
The embattled head of the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center based in Iola was suspended from his position on Monday by the organization’s board of […]
Trump’s first year: Results over rhetoric
One year into his return to the Oval Office, Donald Trump has delivered what supporters long argued was missing from Washington: decisive action, unapologetic […]
Kansas House committee grills SEKMHC head on salaries, operations of Medicaid-funded expanded care model
SEKMHC Executive Director Nathan Fawson testifies at the Kansas House Health and Human Services Committee hearing Tuesday./Kansas House Youtube capture TOPEKA – Kansas Representatives on […]
Davids again picks trans over women in Tuesday SCOTUS hearing
Trans MMA fighter Alana McLaughlin wins his debut fight in Australia in 2021/news.com.au WASHINGTON, D.C. — Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids joined 129 other congressional Democrats […]
In Johnson County Republicans have the numbers – but Democrats have the ‘want to’
The “bluing” of Johnson County election results in recent years comes down less to numbers than it does to who tries hardest. That’s the conclusion […]
Whose insurrection is this, anyway?
After the Biden–Harris Justice Department spent three years stretching the interpretation of “obstruction of an official proceeding” to hammer January 6 defendants and Donald Trump, […]
Trump takes Maduro; implications for Kansas likely to follow oil markets
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
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — States Newsroom, the nonprofit online media organization bankrolling left-biased Internet publications like The Kansas Reflector in multiple states, spiked a near […]