Stocks dropped like a stone Monday when Standard and Poor’s slapped a negative outlook on the credit rating of the United States. The internationally regarded company said there was a one-in-three chance that it could…

A U.S. district judge sentenced Thomas Blubaugh to 46 months in prison for his part in the $2 million ticket scalping scandal at the University of Kansas.The Kansas public won’t have much sympathy for those…

The path seems to be clear for the University of Kansas Cancer Center at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City to be named a National Cancer Institute. That federal designation will make the center…

The next fiscal showdown in Washington shouldn’t happen. About the middle of May the debt limit will be reached and Republicans are saying they won’t vote to lift the limit unless the Democrats agree to additional…

President Obama joined with House Republicans yesterday to attack growing federal deficits and point the country toward fiscal balance.“Join” isn’t the proper verb. The paths each would take to that goal go in opposite directions.…

Gov. Sam Brownback kept true to one of his main missions this week by supporting two more pieces of legislation designed to restrict access by Kansas women to the health care they want and need.Last…

Thursday’s edition of USA Today included an editorial with this headline: “When pure profit drives drug development, you pay.” It told about the development of a drug called Makena, which went from a price of…

As Japanese and world experts struggle to stop dangerous emissions from the nuclear plants damaged by the earthquake and following tsunami, opposition to plans for more nuclear plants grows. An anti-nuclear political party in Germany…

Rick Santorum was a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and now wants to be president.He shouldn’t be, because he doesn’t think very well. To illustrate, he told a radio station host Tuesday that Social Security was…

A couple of weeks ago Rep. Marc Rhodes of Newton introduced a bill (HB 2390) that would abolish the Kan-Ed program and leave Kansas as the only state in the nation without a statewide educational…