Local Columns

Saturday Column: Why do Koch contributions trigger such scorn?

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that changes the law on how much money an individual can give to political candidates. The decision maintains the previous $123,000 limit to a single candidate but allows an individual to give the same amount to any number of ...

Saturday Column: Player unions would vastly change college athletics

The ruling earlier this week by a National Labor Relations Board official that Northwestern University football players are employees of the university and have the right to unionize and bargain for salaries is sure to have a huge impact on so-called amateur collegiate sports.University and ...

Saturday Column: Politicians, like athletes, should play by the rules

Millions of Americans currently are engaged one way or another with the NCAA basketball tournament. Some are participating in office pools or filling out brackets predicting how far the 64 teams will advance, and thousands upon thousands of fans will fill arenas around the country to watch ...

Opinion: Kansans should reclaim power

It was reported this week that during a hearing on a proposed bill to ban judicial lobbying, Craig Gabel, from Kansans for Liberty, said that he was testifying on behalf of the “common citizens” of Kansas. When I read this, I immediately began to wonder about how the “common citizen” of ...

Saturday Column: KU deserves more support in Kansas Legislature

It’s time for Kansas University officials and a number of Kansas legislators to take off their sparring gloves and come clean with the public about why lawmakers seem determined to stiff-arm the university’s requests for funding of high-priority projects.Has KU done a poor job of ...

Saturday Column: Voters must look at facts, not promises, in 2014

The next seven months are going to be an extremely rough-and-tumble period in both the national and state political scenes.President Obama and his followers will be using every possible tool to try to stop the bleeding from his lies relative to Obamacare, the Benghazi tragedy, the IRS targeting ...