Republicans in Congress are ceding their constitutional power to the president, so says the “politerati.” Yes, but there’s the rub: 10 Senate Democrats joined Republicans, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. He changed his mind the day before. The Senate 10 sacrificed the ...

This week, Kansas Secretary of Transportation Calvin Reed kicked off KDOT’s annual Transportation Safety Conference in Wichita by emphasizing the key components of decreasing fatalities on Kansas’s streets and highways: safer drivers, safer vehicles, safer speeds and safer roads. He was ...

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. ...