Last night’s debate was a dogfight. Mitt Romney snarled at President Obama’s record and bit at his ankles over the economy over and over again. One almost expected the audience to supply his punch lines…

Kansas’ own Koch Industries of Wichita is out to save America. Its crusade was page one in Sunday’s Kansas City Star and Wichita Eagle. Its object is to defeat Barack Obama and go on from…

Gov. Sam Brownback created a “task force” to study efficiency in the public schools. It is made up of accountants and other business types. No educators allowed.Call it a task force or a hatchet squad.…

Thursday night’s debate-watchers may have asked themselves an appropriate question: “Who would I rather see as president — Joe Biden or Paul Ryan?” The vice president of the United States is always a heartbeat away…

Ireland has decided to bite the bullet on underwater mortgages and give its homeowners a break.When the Irish housing bubble burst the government bailed out the banks rather than see them go broke. As a…

Hallmark is closing its Topeka plant, a decision that puts a Kansas face on the fact that greeting card companies right along with the U.S. post office are facing fallout from the electronic revolution.More and…

The median wealth of America’s families is in the neighborhood of $100,000. Most of that is in the family’s home. The median wealth of members of the U.S. Congress is $913,000 and rising.The median family…

British researcher John Gurdon and Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka have discovered that ordinary cells in the body can be transformed into primitive cells which, like stem cells, can turn into any kind of tissue. They…

All told, the 50 states and the cities within them have unfunded pension obligations of about $1.4 trillion.This is not news. Kansas, for instance, hasn’t set aside enough money to fund KPERS — the Kansas…

Wednesday night’s debate encouraged Republicans and may have disappointed Democrats.  Mitt Romney was the more aggressive. President Barack Obama held back.  Romney’s points came in harping on the persistent high unemployment numbers and his claim…