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Guest AuthorApril 7, 2016

I often lament how little we learn from that which has come before in our political and governmental processes. It seems like each decade we drop time off the front end of our experiences, as if there is only so much room in our memories for what we have experienced. What else could explain our […]

Guest AuthorApril 6, 2016

I often lament how little we learn from that which has come before in our political and governmental processes. It seems like each decade we drop time off the front end of our experiences, as if there is only so much room in our memories for what we have experienced. What else could explain our […]

Phil AmmannMarch 17, 2016

A group of state senators in Kansas hope to undo by legislative fiat that which our Founding Fathers literally crafted by the sweat of their brow in the Philadelphia summer of 1787 — an independent judiciary. Last week, the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee recommended to the full Senate that Senate Bill 439 be passed. Entitled, […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterFebruary 15, 2016

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has thrown his support behind Marco Rubio. Brownback endorsed Rubio on Monday. In a prepared statement, the Kansas governor said Rubio is a “true conservative who can unite the party and defeat Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in the fall.” “In the past, conservatives have been forced to make a choice […]

Guest AuthorAugust 9, 2015

Over the course of the past 2½ years I found myself in a position I never dreamed possible: Three of my immediate family members died. Although not all of their deaths were the same, each one was painful to me and deeply felt in its own way. Nothing about the human condition prepares you for […]

Marc YachtAugust 4, 2015

The pro-life proponents continue their efforts at fever pitch. Their success continues to chip away laws designed to protect the right of choice. The battle typically sets religious conservatives against women’s rights advocates. Although the violent nature of the anti-abortion crowd has settled for protests and not killings of late, the confrontations at women’s clinics […]

Guest AuthorJuly 22, 2014

It’s as simple as 1+1=2. Every kindergartener knows that if you want more of something, you have to add to it, not subtract from it. Every farmer knows that if he wants a bigger harvest, he has to sow more seed. Not so Republicans. Since 1981, when Arthur Laffer duped Ronald Reagan into believing “supply-side” […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 14, 2014

As a fourth generation Floridian, I care deeply about protecting our waterways and environment. I believe that Florida has always had the best expertise and resources to determine how to protect our waters, as does each unique state. Under the current administration, the federal Environmental Protection Agency continually seeks expanded authority to trump state regulation. […]

Tag: Kansas

Ed Moore: The presidential campaigns make me worry about America’s future

Ed Moore: The presidential campaigns make me worry about America’s future

Isaac Ruiz-Carus: Bill would eliminate independent judiciary in Kansas

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback endorses Marco Rubio

Traci Evison: We all grieve in different ways, on different days

Marc Yacht: Pro-life, pro-choice combine to create lightning-rod issue

Stephen Goldstein: Republicans publicly abandon failed Reaganomics

Pam Bondi: Florida joined suit against EPA to limit federal ‘overreach’

Florida politics had 11 questions before federal qualifying week. Here are the answers.