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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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KSC upholds Kansas law allowing workers to refuse Covid shot on religious grounds
People protest vaccine mandates in New York City in September 2021. (Pamela Drew/Flickr) TOPEKA – As a result of the...
30Sep 2025

No, we do not ALL need to do better
Yahoo News photo Until one of them murdered Charlie Kirk, it was entertaining to watch the freak outs of the...
24Sep 2025

USDA pulls $10.4 million in Kansas SNAP funding after Kelly refuses data
TOPEKA – Continued denial by Governor Kelly to provide data on Kansas’ state-paid food assistance program for poor Kansans resulted...
22Sep 2025

Kobach files suit to force Gov. Kelly to provide SNAP info, secure $10.4 million in benefits
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today announced that he is asking a court to compel Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration to...
08Sep 2025

Kelly channels Biden with SNAP data refusal
Kansas News Service When someone in America asks the government for information and they’re told instead to go pound sand,...
20Aug 2025

The mysterious lack of Kansas media interest in Porfirio De La Cruz-Cantu
With high profile cases of illegal immigrant crime like the Rachel Morin murder in Maryland still peppering national news reports...
13Aug 2025

Medicaid Truth: Grow the cow, get more milk
Among the most ignored stories of Trump II is the administration’s confrontation of the stifling abuse of the federal Medicaid...
05Aug 2025

Davids, Dems fail to stop “Big Beautiful Bill,” ignore massive tax hike they would have slapped on JOCO earners
Once again voting in partisan lockstep with her side of the aisle in the U.S. Congress, Kansas 3rd District Congresswoman...
05Jul 2025

Judge rules against injunction that would have kept foreign campaign dollars in amendment vote
TOPEKA – A Kansas law that prohibits the use of foreign money in state constitutional amendment campaigns took effect July...
01Jul 2025

Justice late still justice served in Iran
Smoke billows from the Iranian State Television headquarters after an Israeli missile strike. Getting to watch the Israelis bomb the...
19Jun 2025