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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 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...
21Jan 2026
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...
14Jan 2026
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...
12Jan 2026
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...
10Jan 2026
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...
03Jan 2026
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...
02Jan 2026
Prairie Band Potawatomi picks criminals over law & order in ICE contract dust up
Tribal Chairman Joseph Rupnick addresses the firing of Prairie Band LLC staff over the ICE contract./Youtube capture The Prairie Band...
15Dec 2025
Can Kansas education save itself after the Laura Kelly years?
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly entered office in 2019 promising stability in school finance and improvements in student outcomes. Instead, data...
13Dec 2025
To hurt Trump, media obscures “affordability”
Does the mainstream media hate Donald Trump enough to lie about the U.S. economy in order to damage Republicans’ chances...
11Dec 2025
Medicaid-boosted salaries put SEKMHC execs in top 1% of earners in Kansas, USA
Salaries paid to executives at the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center pushed those top leaders into the celebrated “1 percent”...
08Dec 2025