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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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
5 min
24Sep 2025

Hawkins: Don’t expand 340B in Kansas without real reform

Last November, Kansans went to the polls in record numbers and helped elect President Trump to make America, and Kansas,...
By Rep. Dan Hawkins, KS Speaker of the House
4 min
20Sep 2025

Condoms for the Taliban and the Great Search For Truth

NBC News photo Boot camp in the Vietnam era ran on rumors the way Wall Street runs on insider tips—rumors...
By Ron Smith – Special to The Informer
6 min
23Aug 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,...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
3 min
20Aug 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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
5 min
05Aug 2025

No, we should not be a Christian nation

When the founders gathered to create a more perfect union, most were devout Christians. But they didn’t fall into the...
By Earl Watt
4 min
30Jul 2025

Hindsight’s 20/20: Let’s protect Kansas from Big Tech monopolies

Harvard Extension School graphic I’m not a Silicon Valley engineer, just a Paola farm kid turned lawmaker, but I know...
By Samantha Poetter Parshall
3 min
18Jul 2025

Scream Therapy for the terminally ignored: Is protesting becoming a national sedative?

Youtube/OnDemandNews Yeah, yeah.  I know.  Protests are an insignia of democracy tattooed onto American buttocks. We are injected with the...
By Ron Smith – Special to The Informer
13 min
15Jul 2025

Over there!; Over there!; Overseas voters from Kansas made their voices heard in 2024

I’ve never understood why counties (or the Secretary of State) do not publish summaries of Kansas overseas voters at election...
By Earl Glynn – Watchdog Lab
4 min
15Jul 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...
By Dane Hicks – The Kansas Informer
4 min
19Jun 2025