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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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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
Jackson Countians seek injunction against solar farm, say NextEra, feds never did environmental study
A federal court judge in Kansas City, Kan., is expected to hear a request for an injunction Wednesday morning against...
17Jun 2025
Party-switching judge nominees flipped, flopped during various U.S., Kansas political eras
With controversial decisions by the Kansas Supreme Court drawing increasing scrutiny in recent years and this week’s naming of three...
13Jun 2025