Gov. Sam Brownback backs reductions in the state income and sales tax. A new study by the Kansas Legislature’s Research Department estimates that his tax cuts would cause a budget shortfall of more than $700…

rn Letters to the editor rn Dear editor,  rn Today (Wednesday) my father, Bill Farmer, and I had a meeting with Carl Slaugh, Iola city administrator, Bill Shirley, Iola mayor, Chuck Apt, Iola city attorney,…

When Rep. Brenda Landwehr of Wichita appeared before the Redistricting Committee in the House she asked to be put in a district with predominately Caucasian residents who lived in houses valued at $800,000 or more. …

General Electric announced a couple of years ago it would spend $1 billion converting its fleet of passenger cars to electric powered models to give the industry a boost — and build a bigger market…

A rock musical comedy appropriately titled “Little Shop of Horrors” was on the Bowlus stage years ago and is being played by the Kansas City Repertory Theater now. Howard Ashman wrote the play and lyrics…

Here are a few straws in the economic wind: May is graduation month. Thousands of newly minted college graduates will swarm into the job market. Those who guessed right and did well in their studies…

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass killer, vehemently declared himself to be sane at his trial. Those who declare him demented, he said, are only trying to dismiss his crusade against Muslims as the rantings…

The Kansas Republican Party wants its candidates for the Legislature to sign a pledge of allegiance to the party leadership after the November elections.  Amanda Adkins, chairwoman of the state Republican Party, explained in a…

Sen. Jeff King of Independence helped write a sensible school funding bill the Senate passed, which now sits in a House committee not scheduled to meet again this session. Sen. King’s bill would increase funding…

Lyndon Baines Johnson dropped a bombshell into U.S. politics in 1968 by declaring he would not run for re-election. After all, he had been elected with a 61 percent majority in 1964 following the assassination…