For years, it advanced slowly, almost unnoticed.  It wasn’t advertised at freshman orientations or highlighted in admission brochures. Yet it’s everywhere, in classrooms, resident halls, even in the quad where students gather.     Over…

In last year’s flap over the Wichita City Council’s Transgender Day of Visibility proclamation, I caught flak from both sides.  Left-wingers laid into me for supporting Mayor Lily Wu’s right not to read the proclamation…

The backers of a constitutional amendment to get rid of merit selection of Kansas Supreme Court justices prattle a lot about bringing “transparency” to the process. Fortunately, you have the opportunity to watch merit selection…

Pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs revolutionized work at pharmacies in the 1980s, when what were then known as “switchers” served as the middleman to provide real-time insurance verification and customer responsibility.  However, they have evolved…

I am a pharmacist. I am a pharmacy owner. I am an employer. And for six months of my life, I was also a cancer patient. While I already knew of the problems with PBMs…

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the administration’s tariffs were unlawful, it resolved a constitutional question. What it did not resolve is how to unwind the economic damage. Gov. JB Pritzker has called for…

The American-Israeli war on Iran has spiked oil prices, as tankers hesitate to transit the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean through which some 20 percent of…

Though it’s half a world away, the war in the Mideast — the United States and Israel attacking Iran, Israel attacking Lebanon, and Iran attacking the entire neighborhood — is causing the price of fuel…

The naysayers emerged quickly, as those of little faith usually do. One of Kansas City’s best-known preachers, the Rev. Adam Hamilton, is mulling a U.S. Senate run. After a Lenten season of prayer and study,…

President Donald Trump and his administration insist their war of choice in Iran bears zero similarity to the bitter Iraq War the U.S. plunged into 23 years ago. I disagree. Both wars were based on…