State’s Policies on Healthcare Exclude the Poor The refusal by about half the states to expand Medicaid will leave millions of poor people ineligible for government-subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law even as many others with higher incomes receive federal subsidies to buy insurance. Starting next month, the administration and its [...]
Freedom to report news needs freedom to gather it By Gene Policinski In the months ahead, that basic concept – so central to the First Amendment’s protection of a free press – will also be at the heart of the ongoing debate over how far government officials may go in pursuit of those [...]
Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural Jason Wiebe Dairy By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University. Sharp. Extra sharp. Those terms might describe a pencil or a razor, but in this case, they describe flavors of cheese. Today we’ll learn about an innovative dairyman who [...]
Dear Arts Advocate, The Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission (KCAIC) submitted its State Arts Plan to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) this month. You can read a copy of it by clicking here. If the State Arts Plan is approved by the NEA, the state may be eligible for matching federal funds. Federal funds [...]
Powerful video taken by a survivor while climbing out of basement in Oklahoma after Monday’s tornado.
Book Review: City – A Guidebook for the Urban Age (Author P.D. Smith) For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population-3.3 billion people-is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers-the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this [...]
Brownback: Higher Sales Taxes Or Bust KDP Weekly Wrap This week, Governor Brownback and his GOP allies made themselves clear: raising sales taxes on working Kansans is the only way forward. That’s why the governor let it be known among Republican legislators that he would veto any budget bill that didn’t include hundreds of millions [...]
May- June precipitation provides early indicator of pasture yield and animal performance By – Keith Harmoney, rangeland scientist, and John Jaeger, beef scientist Available soil water from precipitation is the main limiting factor to total forage production in most regions of Kansas. Other factors, such as prior grazing history (stocking rate), time of year in [...]
Not a Good Model For the Wichita Eagle editorial board, Rhonda Holman After the 2012 election put the entire Legislature under conservative Republican control, Gov. Sam Brownback touted Kansas as a “red-state model” for the nation. By Friday that model was looking a bit black and blue, though, as House and Senate leaders traded blame [...]
By Duane Goossen, Kansas Health Institute A look at the Tax Freedom Day map yields interesting information on how the Kansas tax burden compares to other states and should give policymakers something to think about in the final days of the 2013 legislative session as they work to set future tax policy. Each year [...]
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