As the Kansas legislature gears up for its first hearings on Medicaid expansion in four years, a little- known aspect of the Kansas Medicaid program […]
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How much power over Kansas ratepayers does Evergy need?
Can I ask you to do one thing today? Contact your Kansas House Member and ask them to vote “No” on HB2527. If passed the […]
Kansas must stick with sex at birth for drivers license, judge rules
A judge ruled Monday that Kansas must list only sex at birth on its driver’s licenses until a lawsuit over the issue is resolved. After the Kansas […]
Kansas bills would stop doctors from cutting off minor’s sex organs
TOPEKA – Conservative Kansas lawmakers hope they can resurrect efforts for laws that failed last year to create penalties for doctors and healthcare providers who […]
More daycare is not a deathbed aspiration
Does politics have room for a contrarian view on daycare? And I say politics, in general, because both Republicans and Democrats seem to be falling […]
Time for Kansas to stand with Texas
If Governor Laura Kelly won’t make a public proclamation of support for governor Greg Abbott of Texas and his efforts to secure the federal border […]
Kelly to poorest Kansans: Keep giving unto Caesar
TOPEKA – In one felled swoop of her veto pen on Friday, Governor Laura Kelly denied tax relief to 341,000 low-income Kansas taxpayers who, under […]
Here’s how the poor save more money under Kansas flat tax plan
Three reasons the flat tax proposal is better for taxpayers than Gov. Kelly’s plan A week into the 2024 Legislative session, the two largest tax […]
2024 county commissioner elections critical to fighting wind farms in Kansas
There’s a saying among arborists and landscapers that “the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.” As 2024 comes down the pike […]
Kansas teachers have to get better at teaching reading
Sounding the alarm that 37% of fourth-grade students in the United States (40% in Kansas) cannot read at grade level, the National Council on Teacher […]