Sam Brownback has 29 months remaining as governor. Will we see an increase in revenues for the state over that time so that adequate support will be provided for public entities such as K-12 education?

Primary elections this August will give voters an opportunity to elect many newcomers to the state legislature. Ten of 22 incumbent Republican state Senators seeking to be returned to office face primary opposition, and 21 of 71 Republican state incumbent House members wishing to be returned have primary opposition. This has fueled hope for many Kansans that enough newcomers could be elected to the legislature to help bring change to the Governor’s fiscal policies. Even with the many open seats

Meg Whitman, chief executive of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, candidate for Governor of California in 2010, and a major contributor to Republican candidates, likened Donald Trump to Fascist leaders Mussolini and Hitler at Mitt Romney’s annual retreat in Utah for political campaign donors this past week. How has Trump’s behavior provoked such concerns?

Many politicians, pundits and journalists made wrong predictions about Donald Trump’s prospects for winning the GOP presidential nomination. What were some of those predictions? Senator Rand Paul said, “There is no way voters in the country will nominate Trump.” James Fallows, writing for The Atlantic, said, “The chance of his winning the nomination and election is exactly zero.” Nate Silver, the prediction expert and editor of Five Thirty Eight, said last August that Trump’s odds of winning

Political writer Andrew Sullivan recently had an essay in New York Magazine with the headline “America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny.” This is a reflection on the response to Donald Trump’s 2016 Republican presidential campaign. Donald Trump is the candidate who has aroused the latent authoritarian attitudes of Americans of different classes and not just those with low levels of education.

The state of Kansas has a $290 million budget hole to fill. All 165 state legislators are up for election this year, so the Legislature adjourned without finding a more permanent fix to recurring revenue shortages and left it up to Gov. Sam Brownback to make necessary spending cuts. The governor refuses to believe that the 2012 tax cuts for 330,000 businesses is causing the problem. Instead, excuses are offered, such as falling commodity prices in oil and agriculture causing the latest revenue

Kansas made the the front page of The New York Times this past week as the fiery battle to reshape the Kansas Supreme Court and make it more accountable to a conservative-leaning public is heating up. Gov. Sam Brownback and conservative Republicans are outraged about blocked anti-abortion laws and decisions on the funding of K-12 schools. The Court ruled that the state’s public schools would have to shut down if more money was not given to poorer districts by June 30. The Legislature responded

The Republican National Convention to choose a candidate for president will be held in Cleveland in July. There is no presumed nominee, and there has been no contested convention since 1948. Three candidates, Senator Ted Cruz, Governor John Kasich, and businessman Donald Trump, remain in the race. The Chairperson of the Convention’s Rules Committee, Bruce Ash of Tucson, Arizona, thinks that Cruz and Trump will most likely be the two candidates put forward as nominees at the Convention, but that

The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the Senate Judiciary committee’s refusal to consider an appointment by President Obama to replace him is provoking ongoing debate.