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After continued failure, it’s time for new leadership in Kansas K-12 education

In a recent article in this forum I summarized the state of public education in Kansas. And it is not...
By Dane Hicks
7 min
27May 2025

This Kansas group wants foreign $$$ to stay in our state constitutional amendment votes

Why are the non-profit "Kansans For Constitutional Freedom" and its chorus of Left-leaning partners so eager to overturn a new...
By Dane Hicks
8 min
26May 2025

Dems drown Biden, themselves in depths of Trump hate

Hate is powerful, but until former president Joe Biden’s admission this week that he was riddled with cancer, most Americans...
By Dane Hicks
4 min
22May 2025

Override of Kelly’s veto will stimulate jobs in Kansas City

Kansas is on the brink of a transformative economic era, thanks to the recent establishment of Finserv Inc.'s fintech hub...
By Dane Hicks
3 min
20May 2025

How Soros-backed “Loud Light” turns dark money into Kansas political capital

Even considering the full red tilt of the Kansas Legislature and a coming political campaign heavy with qualified Republican contenders...
By Dane Hicks
6 min
19May 2025

Soros-backed Lefties fight Kansas’ new ballot deadline

Follow the money – Who's fundingt election lawfare in Kansas? Three nonprofit groups filed a lawsuit last week to overturn...
By Dane Hicks
7 min
13May 2025

Kansas Congressman: The 100 day start to restoring America

This past November, Kansas rejected the nonsense of the Biden-Harris Administration and demanded that Washington, D.C. restore common sense, secure...
By Dane Hicks
4 min
07May 2025

The Orwellian parallels of the Biden-Trump era in America

In the late-1960s I enrolled in a collegiate Comparative Literature class that contrasted George Orwell’s '1984' to the anti-Vietnam rioting...
By Dane Hicks
10 min
27Apr 2025

Losing the trade war isn’t new — we’ve been losing for 50 years

Agriculture is the lifeblood of Southwest Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle. One way or another, we all pay our bills...
By Earl Watt
4 min
14Apr 2025

Devil exposed as bad speller, but gets his due in Kansas Statehouse bru-ha

The devil apparently won’t be in the running to win next year’s Kansas State Spelling Bee, but with the scuffle...
By Dane Hicks
4 min
29Mar 2025