Thursday a group 50 former Republican legislators from across Kansas — including Iola’s Denise Apt, who had a stellar career in the Kansas House — lambasted Gov. Sam Brownback for endorsing opponents of sitting Republican…

Former Gov. Bill Graves will come back home to Kansas next week to campaign for moderate Republicans who are being opposed by  ultra-conservative Gov. Sam Brownback and the candidates he is backing.  Graves, who served…

Yesterday, Congressional Republicans voted unanimously to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act which is President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement. They didn’t offer — much less approve — replacement health care reform legislation, despite the…

A couple of writers, Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, desperate for a topic latched onto money and happiness. How much income does it take to make a family happy, they wondered. Using data collected from…

Monday’s political scene featured two news stories out of Washington. One reported that President Obama repeated his call to let the Bush tax cuts on the rich expire and keep the current rates for those…

Although it’s never looked old, a new airport for Kansas City is in the making. The new design will be one large terminal instead of three separate terminals. Increased demands for security and a decrease…

Like Nik Wallenda inching his way high above Niagara Falls, the U.S. economy is walking a fine line. What will keep us from falling off this tightrope is prudent investing by the government in creating…

  Three brothers from the small town of Assaria are doing more for Kansas’ image than any advertising could buy. The Peterson brothers, Greg, Nathan, and Kendal, made a video to the music of the…

  Friday’s rally on the statehouse grounds in Topeka involved mostly Catholics protesting the recently upheld Affordable Care Act because, according to Gov. Sam Brownback, it would require people of faith to “violate their beliefs…

My, the bloom fades fast. No sooner had many Kansans celebrated the validation of the Affordable Care Act by the U.S. Supreme Court, than our governor Sam Brownback said it was all for naught.  As…