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…

As it turns out, we aren’t quite so divided as a nation. Again and again, surveys show that Americans agree that billionaires and corporations don’t need more tax breaks.  We agree that we want quality,…

TOPEKA — Melissa Sabin spoke officially on behalf of Little Lobbyists Kansas and personally in the name of her son, Logan, against a Kansas Senate bill aggressively expanding the state’s process of verifying eligibility for…

TOPEKA — Kansas received $221 million from the federal Rural Health Transformation Program to strengthen health systems and expand access to care in the state, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Monday. The Centers for Medicare and…

Early one morning last spring, my daughter, then 4½, asked me to tell her again how we’d once been connected by her belly button.  She had begun to imagine a tiny version of herself drinking…

Nearly every seat is taken during lunchtime at the Remnant Cafe in Parsons, Kansas, and Brian Williams is caught up in conversation about the happenings at the local hospital. It’s not unusual for Williams, the…

I’ve been a physician in rural Kansas for over fifteen years, and I am extremely fearful for my patients’ health right now. Medicaid is the backbone of healthcare in rural communities. It’s how working families,…

Americans are frustrated with health care, and rightly so. It’s expensive, confusing and often unfair. I’ve written about its flaws for years. But as calls grow to burn it all down, we risk losing the…

TOPEKA — Agriculture is a potential winner of new federal dollars when Kansas officials considered the state’s gains and losses from the “one big, beautiful bill“ act, the legislative budget committee learned Tuesday. Multiple funding…

TOPEKA — Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins said the 2026 Legislature would strive to slash $200 million from the state government’s budget and seek to reduce expenditures on the Medicaid program delivering health care to…