For the third time in as many years, Kansas’ Democrat Governor Larua Kelly has vetoed a bill that would penalize doctors and health care facilities […]
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.
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 foreign-born terrorist is about 1 […]
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, unveiling a proposal to exempt […]
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 into action a major child […]
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 legitimacy isn’t easy when your […]
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 country, like the one that […]
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 House Armed Services Committee and […]
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 northern tier of the eastern […]
It’s a mess – just stay home
A traffic tie-up on Highway 71 south from Kansas City snarled traffic Saturday evening involving a reported 200 vehicles and more than 70 accidents. Law […]
Winter Storm Blair to land Saturday in Kansas, National Weather Service says
Winter Storm Blair – described as the most widespread winter storm of the season so far – will sweep through the central and eastern U.S. […]