I’ve used this space many times over the years to provide some defense of the political powers and interests of the cities that over 75% of Kansans live in. I did last month in response to a bill in Topeka — which thankfully died in committee — that would have forbidden cities from ...

In 2019, the governors of Kansas and Missouri both committed to a truce, pausing the pointless, destructive tax border war. Prior to that, Kansas City-area companies would regularly leverage millions of dollars from their respective states in order to move just a few miles across the state ...

Over the last month, the Kansas Legislature pushed through anti-trans woman bills HB180 and HB2238. HB180 establishes a “women’s bill of rights to provide a meaning of biological sex for purposes of statutory construction.” In other words, the committee outlines terminology to establish a ...

For the past several years Kansas families have suffered from a systemic lack of child care. Access to child care is a problem in both urban and rural areas. All but one of the state’s 105 counties have a higher demand for child care than availability. According to Child Care Aware of ...

If passed into law, can Education Saving Accounts and tax credit vouchers withstand a constitutional challenge? That’s a question rolling around the Statehouse. The concern, at this point, is speculation since these two school choice bills have yet to go to Gov. Laura Kelly for her ...

Kansas is officially a Home Rule state. It has been since 1961, when an amendment to the state constitution officially declared that Kansas cities are “empowered to determine their local affairs … except when” such actions are “limited or prohibited” by an act of the Legislature. ...