With the midterm elections over — along with the barrage of mailers, phone calls and TV spots — voters can be excused if they’re not eager to be immersed in the next campaign. Yet there…

For the better part of a decade, Kansas government has been consumed by tax policy. Residents first endured former Gov. Sam Brownback’s “experiment,” which resulted in yawning deficits, budget cuts and credit downgrades. Teachers fled.…

She was a tall 30-something who walked into the polling place at 6:50 p.m. on Election Day. I was standing by the door the woman entered, fulfilling my role as a poll watcher at the…

I’ve always been a late bloomer. Despite growing up in a household where politics was served each night around the dinner table, I didn’t feel pulled to participate until I was in my mid-30s.  At…

Certain images from Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s nearly two decades of leading House Democrats stand out. There is Ms. Pelosi beaming as she called up to the dais all the children who had accompanied their parents…

Dear editor, The article about Iola Christmas lights had me harummping quite a bit.  It was known last year that the system was failing badly as lights were being pieced together then. But nothing was…

Of all the states to  be affected by last week’s election none was more dramatic than Michigan. Not only was Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer re-elected, but the House and Senate were flipped to Democratic majorities.…

Inflation is a hot-button issue, and its political fallout can be huge. Some think that the hyperinflation during Germany’s Weimar Republic in the 1920s — when, at a trillion to the dollar, the German mark…

NASA’s Artemis program is edging toward a return to the moon — this time to stay — with its successful launch this week of an uncrewed rocket. Some Americans looking at the Earth-bound problems all…

Kansas City and the region are now closer than ever to a discussion about a downtown baseball stadium, and the future of professional sports in our area.  Royals President John Sherman released a three-page letter…