Kansas started a new state budget year on July 1, $700 million in the red. It was necessary to issue a certificate of indebtedness for the $700 million because tax collection shortfalls left the treasury…

A proposed bill to open Cuba to farm exports from the United States cleared the House Agricultural Committee Thursday with Kansas Rep. Jerry Moran in full support.Rep. Moran has been fighting for years to modify…

This is just my opinion.We are a nation of gripers, spoiled rotten, over-indulged hypocrites.We want small government, but when a catastrophe happens we want it fixed by our government NOW. BP is a large corporation…

Russia’s crew of “illegals” arrested by the FBI this week were paid to be spies. Each of the 11 appear to be native Russians living in the United States with elaborate cover stories that kept…

Elena Kagan danced around all of the questions Republican senators asked about her opinions on politically sensitive questions as her Supreme Court confirmation hearing continued.Had she done otherwise the Senate should have disqualified her for…

By a majority of one, the Supreme Court decided Monday that the Second Amendment trumped state and local gun control laws. The 5-4 decision apparently struck down a Chicago ordinance banning handguns in the city.…

Lawuits have been filed in Wichita challenging the anti-smoking law passed by the 2010 Legislature on the basis that it doesn’t treat like places in like fashion.The law exempts the state’s casinos, for example, and…

Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia served nine terms in the U.S. Senate and cast a record-setting 18,600 votes before he died early Monday morning. He was 92 and was taken to a hospital…

A company called AquaBounty used gene science 10 years ago to develop salmon which grow twice as fast as the wild variety — or the tame ones grown in salmon farms. The Food and Drug…

A massive bill overhauling the nation’s financial regulatory system apparently will be passed this week and sent to President Barack Obama. It has been described as the most thorough-going reform of banking and financial institutions…