In a report published earlier this month by the Kansas Maternal Mortality Review Committee, the state’s maternal outcomes have worsened in recent years. Both pregnancy-related deaths and illnesses increased between 2016 and 2020. According to the report, about two-thirds of ...

Various tensions — urban vs. rural, national vs. local — haunt almost every discussion about environmental policy in the United States. Recent efforts by some Kansas educational institutions reflect a path beyond those tensions, efforts that are long overdue. To start, environmental ...

After decades of decline, fatal traffic crashes increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today’s traffic deaths are falling harder and harder on bicyclists and pedestrians. In Kansas, pedestrian deaths increased 261%, from 18 in 2019 to 47 in 2021, according to the National Governors’ ...

On Aug. 14, Dolly Parton is coming to Kansas to celebrate the statewide success of her Imagination Library program. Parton’s Imagination Library is an example of how music, art and culture can intersect with social change. Through her deep commitment to education and literacy, Parton has ...

In Wichita, Topeka and elsewhere across Kansas, the municipal election cycle is underway. Candidates for city council and school board seats and mayor will be selected in the primary elections that will conclude on Tuesday. For those few Kansans involved in these races, whether as candidates or ...

Do we need to re-learn how we merge on the freeway? The Kansas Department of Transportation says yes. But are we open to re-thinking something we have done the same way for years? Since 2016, KDOT has been promoting the “zipper merge” for the construction zones along U.S. Highway 69 in ...