Editorials

Views from Kansas: Make switch to mail-in

Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Kansas leaders, the time has come. Our state needs to switch to a mail-in election system, for primary and general elections. That’s a sweeping statement, we ...

Views from Kansas: Review situation in prisons, jails

Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Cellphone footage of what one inmate correctly labeled the “mayhem” at Lansing Correctional Facility last week shows prisoners trashing the place while cursing ...

Views from Kansas: Crucial time for Medicaid bill

Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. When the Kansas Legislature comes back to Topeka, it will undoubtedly take up the topic of aid to citizens impacted by our current circumstances. Expanding Medicaid is ...

Views from Kansas: Aggressively test Kansans

Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. A biochemistry professor at Kansas State University has exactly the right idea: Kansas should aggressively test as many people as possible for the coronavirus. In a ...

View from Kansas: Access problem hurts rural areas

Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. As the new coronavirus spreads, it has exposed a variety of societal vulnerabilities. For example, giant cities have seen how their long-touted lifestyle — packing ...