“This isn’t a protest,” a man yelled into a reporter’s microphone, “this is a revolution.”  “I tell the Arab world to stand with us until we win our freedom,” said Khaled Yusuf, a cleric from…

Rep. Tom Sloan of Lawrence really is into Xiphactinus audax (ZY’-fak-tin-us AH’daks). He has been trying for a decade to get the long-dead critter declared the official fossil of Kansas. But other cooks have started…

While everyone’s mind is on snow, ice and sub-zero temperatures, the Midwest economy continues to thaw.The Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region rose for the fourth straight month, to 58.9 in January, according to…

Kansas is so poor it must cut funding of its schools and highways, stash away millions to guard against pressures in the next fiscal year and cut every state worker’s pay by 7.5 percent. (Even…

It was a catchy headline: “Choosing Self-Esteem Over Sex or Pizza.” My first reaction: false choices. Why not healthy helpings of all three?What the story in the New York Times was about was a study…

Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran asked President Obama to lift the restrictions on the sale of U.S. farm products — such as Kansas wheat — to Cuba.In a letter to the president this week, Sen. Moran…

A coalition of large retailers — discount stores, convenience stores, drug stores, grocers, etc. — is pushing to change Kansas liquor laws to permit them to sell hard liquor, strong beer and full strength wines.…

President Obama set the stage Tuesday night for a two-year debate over the role of government.The president asked for Republicans, Democrats and the rest of the country to link arms and out-compete our rivals to…

When new Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback presented his 2012 budget for the state earlier this month he said, “…State funding for school districts will increase $129.3 million in FY 2012. …. From a school district’s…

Tonight’s State of the Union speech will be noteworthy for two reasons. First is for a kumbaya moment when at least some Republicans and Democrats will break with tradition and sit side by side to…