This legislative session, Kansas legislators are considering whether to restrict what low-income households can buy with their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits. Specifically, Senate Bill 79 requests authorization from the federal government to prohibit the use of ...

As of last week, 26 bills related to elections had been introduced in the Legislature this session. Four of these bills have passed one of the houses — two in the Senate and two in the House. Three of these bills are functionally redundant as they do not change the state’s status quo and ...

As I write, the Kansas House Committee on Judiciary is about to hear HB 2348, which would eliminate tenure at higher education institutions governed by the State of Kansas. The bill emerged from a legal dispute between certain faculty members and administrators at Emporia State, yet its ...

For decades, there has been a general understanding of the coalitions that define the two parties. The wealthy and college educated leaned Republican, while the less educated, working class and the disadvantaged supported Democrats. We knew generally what to expect from both sides. ...

Kansas cities, like all American cities, including all the blue ones that our new president regularly attacks, are not radical places. They may have more Democratic voters than the state’s rural counties, and those voters may prefer more egalitarian policies than will ever pass in Topeka, but ...

If you’ve been to the grocery store since the new year you may have noticed that state sales tax on grocery items dropped to 0%. In 2022, the Kansas Legislature passed a bill that gradually eliminated the state sales tax on groceries, with final elimination on Jan. 1, 2025. To many, tax ...