Editorials
Its only recent history that the minds eye can still picture a then-spry Lech Walesa scaling fences and leaping atop platforms to lead the rallying cry of Solidarnosc! (Solidarity) in Polands fight against Russian tyranny.…
The U.S. Senate has the right idea with its passage last week of a new farm bill. First off, the bill was widely approved, 83-11, by both Republicans and Democrats, as opposed to the House…
In their role to ensure Kansas children receive a good education, Kansas Supreme Court justices ruled Monday that while legislators have made a good faith effort to address 10 years of cuts to school funding,…
The paranoia over undocumented immigrants flooding our voting booths is beyond the pale. And yet Kansas legislators, for fear they would appear unpatriotic, fell for it in 2011 when they passed the first law in…
On Monday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed a ruling that allowed women suffering physical abuse to seek asylum in the United States. We will not be their safe haven, he said. The attorney general…
Mysterious attacks against U.S. diplomats stationed in Cuba are threatening to quash blossoming relations between our countries.Separated by only 90 miles — here to Kansas City — we recently have begun to enjoy increased trade…
A disadvantage with Donald Trump not having any experience in public service — be it school board, city commission, or a military obligation — prior to being elected president of the United States is that…
A scandal back in 1957 changed the way judges to the Kansas Supreme Court are appointed.Known as the “triple play,” the cover-up involved the state’s governor, lieutenant governor and chief justice of the Kansas Supreme…
The one tax increase that seems to be making the most headway is on sales.Everybody needs food and clothing, the thinking goes, and so should be the most fair. That would be true if everybody…
Kansas had its own Moral Monday, but it was on Tuesday. In Georgia, protestors flooded the state capitol Monday to protest the Legislature’s refusal to expand Medicaid guidelines as provided in the Affordable Care Act.…
