Opinion

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in the Kansas City metropolitan area straddling Kansas and Missouri has made headlines across the country, a rare feat for an infectious disease too often ignored in the United States.  While…

Excuse me for the impertinence, President Trump. I have a question: Why are you cutting the federal budget by firing people at a lab that’s supposed to protect our food supply and keep animal diseases…

The only efficiency Elon Musk cares about is how efficiently he can take your money to line his own pockets. Despite President Trump’s campaign promises, Musk is coming after your earned Social Security benefits.  President…

“I am a father, a loving husband, and dedicated civil servant. … I am tired from weeks of being bullied and censored by billionaires. “I am tired of waking up every morning at 2am wondering…

America First, as practiced by President Donald Trump in his second term, will instead — and probably sooner rather than later — amount to America Isolated or even America Hated. How such an outcome will…

 The signs were becoming impossible to ignore. Amy Utley was in a rut.   “Our agreement was I would work from 10 a.m. to 5,” she said.   She nervously giggles, burying her head in…

As I write, the Kansas House Committee on Judiciary is about to hear HB 2348, which would eliminate tenure at higher education institutions governed by the State of Kansas.   The bill emerged from a…

The prospect of mountains of milo rotting on port docks has moved a handful of “Sorghum Belt” members of Congress to see if they can get their colleagues to care. The grain, interchangeably known as…

In the Pentagon they must surely be on high alert. On Sunday, Feb. 9 President Donald Trump declared that it would soon become the target for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Accusing it…

Kansas has more than a few challenges these days.  Do we need to add a heaping dose of self-inflicted brain drain to the list?  Steven Lovett seems to think so.  Lovett is the general counsel…