Like most of us, Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay says he viewed a video of the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd with a lump in his throat. Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was killed…

I went through a mild-versioned “born again” phase in my late thirties because I needed assurance God would not desert me even though I was giving up on a marriage of 15 years. The best…

Rebuilding after a natural disaster is straightforward. You roll up your sleeves, clear the debris and start over. You look to your community and hold one another close. Rebuilding amid a pandemic of historic proportions…

To President Donald Trump, this weekend’s protests were just a bunch of unhappy people “ranting” about who knows what. All that “I can’t breathe,” and “Black Lives Matter” can get awfully tiresome. So. Much. Noise.…

“I can’t breathe.” We’ve heard that horrifying, desperate refrain before from an African American man gasping for life while in police custody. Six years ago, those words came from Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of…

At the end of April, researchers at Northeastern University in Boston predicted 100,000 Americans would die from COVID-19 by the end of summer. Instead, that milestone came Tuesday, the day after Memorial Day. It came…

Kansas Republicans were quick to paint Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto Tuesday of their coronavirus bill as a power grab when in fact the biggest takeaway was the governor’s willingness to compromise. Kelly handed over responsibility…

Living through the coronavirus crisis without the Internet may be unimaginable for those whose workdays and schooldays now take place on the Web. Yet for millions of Americans, it’s everyday reality. The digital divide was…

The 2020 legislative session was like many before it. Republican leadership bottle-necked good ideas in favor of political posturing and ideology. Health care for needy Kansans was again a victim of blatant partisanship, in spite…

It’s as if a powerful squall line blew through Kansas overnight. By dawn’s early light it was time to assess the damage. That’s the feeling left by the Kansas Legislature’s wholly unnecessary end-of-session 24-hour marathon,…