TOPEKA — The Senate and House narrowly passed a bill giving 10% of registered voters in a taxing area the ability to stop some property tax increases, a move one senator called “tyranny of the…

The Kansas Legislature just can’t help itself from passing special favors for the Christian right. This time, it’s tax breaks for health plans — for fundamentalist Christians only. On Friday the Legislature won the battle…

So, here’s the latest mean-spirited shaft-the-poor bill brought to you by the wonderful people at your Kansas Legislature. It’s called Senate Bill 254, and it would kick needy Kansans families off of public assistance by…

TOPEKA — A contingent of House Republicans united with Democrats on Monday to push through a bill that reins in the middlemen operating between drug companies and pharmacies, offering more transparency for a system that…

Across Kansas, lawmakers have advanced a series of policies that directly threaten students’ First Amendment rights — policies that should alarm anyone who cares about democracy, civic participation, and the development of informed citizens.  Most…

During the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, bystander video showed America an out-of-control federal immigration agent essentially executing a protester in cold blood for no good reason. And Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson wants to…

TOPEKA — Supporters in the Kansas Legislature of a bill altering educational expectations of college nursing faculty say they’ve hit upon a possible answer to the state’s persistent nursing shortage. The thrust of Senate Bill 334, on…

TOPEKA — The Kansas House and Senate went tit-for-tat last week, rebuffing each other’s property tax relief proposals, which have been billed this legislative session as making good on old promises to alleviate Kansans’ residential…

In last year’s flap over the Wichita City Council’s Transgender Day of Visibility proclamation, I caught flak from both sides.  Left-wingers laid into me for supporting Mayor Lily Wu’s right not to read the proclamation…

Pharmacy benefit managers or PBMs revolutionized work at pharmacies in the 1980s, when what were then known as “switchers” served as the middleman to provide real-time insurance verification and customer responsibility.  However, they have evolved…