Kansas will have a year to learn whether huge tax cuts will produce equally huge economic growth. The Legislature passed a budget Sunday and went home, leaving what has been labeled a “nuclear option” tax…

Wednesday Senate President Steve Morris said he and his fellow moderate Republicans “were not planning on passing a map that’s detrimental to us.” The conservatives in the Senate and House appear equally determined to demand…

Last week Gov. Sam Brownback signed into a law a measure creating a new Creative Arts Industry Commission. This week lawmakers struggling to complete the fiscal 2013 budget agreed to fund the new commission with…

A while back the Kansas Legislature turned aside from doing the hard work of tackling state problems and passed a bill to prevent judicial or administrative decisions in Kansas from being based on foreign legal…

Dear editor, We have never written a letter to the forum until now. We have attended the city council meeting and really learned a lot about city policies. These council people give a lot of…

When Mitt Romney’s wealth drew critical comment, he replied he was not about to apologize for success. Of course not, would be the automatic reaction of most. What red-blooded American boy hasn’t dreamed of being…

It is ironic that the current hot topic, gay marriage, takes place against a background of growing indifference to marriage itself. At present there are more than 5.6 million unmarried couples living together in the…

The Kansas Economic Progress Council hired Bernie Koch to analyze tax and budget legislation and serve as a watchdog over other goings-on in Topeka. Mr. Koch took an interest in the tax cut bill that…

A measure cutting income and sales taxes sits on Gov. Sam Brownback’s desk. It isn’t exactly the bill he asked for, but he said it would create growth.  That’s not all it would create. The…

Two more of the unsilent majority that agree with Jacki. Mark and Cassandra Michael, Iola, Kan. I agree with Jacki. Janie Henderson, Iola, Kan. I agree with Jacki. Norma Stahl, Iola, Kan. I agree with…