In a report today, the Kansas City Star shows the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and Sunflower Electric Power Corp. were in close contact when KDHE was writing the permit for Sunflower's controversial 895 megawatt coal-burning power plant. The newspaper reveals emails that ...

State Board of Education member Walt Chappell has switched to the Republican Party. Chappell, of Wichita, who won election to the 10-member board as a Democrat, said Tuesday that he changed his party affiliation last week. He said he switched because he supported the tax position of ...

News of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner's photos that he took of himself in the House gym raised a couple of questions in my mind -- "The House has a gym? Why?" The gymnasium is located beneath the Rayburn House Office Building, according to the website of the Architect of the Capitol. Here's a ...

Reading all the glowing articles this morning about the new $200 million state-of-the-art soccer stadium in Kansas City, Kan. that opens tonight got me to wondering, "Isn't the state of Kansas — read Kansas taxpayers — involved in this project?'" The answer is yes. In 2010, Gov. Mark ...

Last week, I asked readers to submit suggestions on how the state could save money or be run more efficiently in light of the massive drop in tax collections that has forced cutbacks in most areas of state government. I received several ideas and questions, in fact more than I could get to, ...

There are two polls taking the pulse of Kansans on the issue of whether to build two 700-megawatt coal-burning power plants in southwest Kansas. One, which shows support for coal, was done for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce. The chamber is pushing hard for approval of the coal plants. The ...