A proposed deal between Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and Republican Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning to expand Medicaid will be good for Kansas, perhaps adding coverage for 150,000 people. It will be an even better deal for the country, if the idea behind the proposal takes hold: Democrats ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Better pay and working conditions for mental health workers must be a priority issue for Kansas lawmakers in the 2020 session, which begins next week. There are two ...
The idea of a new electric scooter program in downtown Lawrence feels a bit like an eighth-grade mohawk. You remember those junior high days where you felt obligated to wear a particular type of clothing or sport a certain kind of hairstyle or listen to a special brand of music to be cool. ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Has anyone in this country not decided how he or she feels about the impeachment of President Donald Trump? We assume there must be a few such people. Perhaps they ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. What would you do when presented with a 3-month-old baby who suffered a ghastly 31 fractures at the hands of a “caretaker”? Would you say, “Whatever we do, ...
Lawrence is different from the rest of Kansas, for both good and bad. These days, one of the more significant differences is the reaction to a new housing development being built on the edge of town. The vast majority of Kansas communities celebrate it because the vast majority of communities ...
House Democrats should be congratulated on the strength of their conscience. They should be chastised for their lack of conviction. A president asking for a favor from a foreign leader that involves investigating a political rival of the president should create multiple questions of ...
Here is a fun fact for you: The Kansas State High School Activities Association recently awarded 15 state championships to 4A and 5A schools. Nine of them were won by private schools. Well, maybe that isn’t such a fun fact if you are a student-athlete in one of those competing public ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Two young women have dropped their federal lawsuit against Kansas State University, and in a limited sense that makes complete sense to us. Their case — which ...
Most of America probably does not realize that we could make a massive change to the internet with a relatively small eraser. All it would take to fundamentally change how the internet operates is the removal of about 25 words in a single federal law. Those words can be found in section 230 ...
If strained for conversation topics this Thanksgiving, maybe you should start with discussing the time the vice president shot the former secretary of the treasury. You know, when Vice President Aaron Burr shot and killed founding father and former treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton in a ...
Hopefully, the American people still believe in the system of checks and balances. President Donald Trump seemingly thinks a check is nothing more than a piece of paper that occasionally bounces. Checks and balances, though, are fundamental to the preservation of our form of government. At ...
It came about a week after Halloween, but a comment from University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod still was the type that could put a scare into local leaders. “A future KU may be a smaller KU, but a stronger KU,” Girod said earlier this month at a kickoff event for KU’s new ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. In June of 2018, 57% of Oklahoma voters cast a vote in favor of legalizing medical marijuana. A few months later in Missouri, 66% of voters showed their support. As ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. What Kansas really needs is a nice new asbestos plant or metal mine. Maybe we could bring back production of lead paint or the Ford Pinto. Or strictly as a backup, a ...
The city’s discussion on dealing with messy plastic bags is moving in the right direction, but it still has a gaping hole. The Lawrence Sustainability Advisory Board recently said it was open to abandoning the idea of a 16 cent per bag fee on most plastic bags used at stores in the city. ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Kansas legislators on a bipartisan criminal justice reform committee recently heard the disturbing news that half of the 213,000 Kansans with suspended driver’s ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. This will be a much different editorial than it could’ve been. Or should’ve been. That’s because we were ready to take up for the University of Kansas, if it ...
Of course, you should get out to vote on Tuesday, if you haven’t already done so through the popular advanced voting options that are now available. If you haven’t figured out the importance of voting, you simply aren’t paying attention in today’s world. If you aren’t paying ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. A constitutional amendment stands to save nearly a million taxpayer dollars by eliminating a costly and largely pointless bureaucratic exercise. The amendment, which ...