Four Kansas school districts — Shawnee Mission, Olathe, Kansas City, Kansas, and Topeka — are now under federal investigation after a Washington dark money group filed a complaint.  On paper, they’ll say it’s about Title…

For more than 160 years, mail-in voting has been a fixture of American democracy — especially in Kansas. During the Civil War, Union soldiers stationed far from home were granted the right to vote by…

There is a classic Beatles song — “In My Life” — that speaks of “places I remember, all my life, though some have changed, some forever, not for better …” There is a day in…

Kris Kobach had a choice between the best interests of Kansas or the best interests of Donald Trump.  He chose Trump.  Here’s what happened: The state attorney general last week asked a federal court to…

Vladimir Putin came to Alaska and got the red-carpet treatment, complete with a fighter-jet flyover and a warm presidential handshake.  While expectations were low for a full ceasefire, most observers were hoping for at least…

While the leader of 340 million Americans furiously works to derail climate action, the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics is embracing it. In May, when Pope Leo XIV succeeded the late Pope Francis, I suggested…

A ray of hope broke through the discussion Monday evening when Corey Schinstock, assistant city administrator, assumed the responsibility of working with volunteers to devise a countywide recycling plan. Up until then, it appeared it…

Governor Laura Kelly has received national media attention this summer for resigning from the National Governors Association and joining a lawsuit against the federal government over the release of appropriated funds.  These actions reflect today’s…

Kansans can congratulate themselves. A vacancy on the state Supreme Court has once again been smoothly filled through an orderly process Kansans voted to put into our state constitution in 1958.  At its heart, the…

Last Friday, someone anonymously emailed me an article from a far-right American website as supposed proof that I had killed my husband with Covid vaccines — a reboot of the same baseless narrative first pushed…