Monthly Archives: June 2016

Ohio has been a “leader” in the charter school expansion project. We vote to skip that one. “But the straightforward experiment went off the rails when some clever operators figured out how to get rich by sponsoring charter schools. And to keep the gravy flowing, they began making major political...

Scrolling through our old posts on our Facebook page, we found this from May 10, 2012: “Yesterday the House hijacked the political process and sent a tax bill to the governor’s desk the Senate did not intend to be its final say on the matter. The parties will return to...

“Current GOP legislative leaders and Gov. Sam Brownback risked this trouble by decimating the tax base in their misguided 2012 effort to eliminate state income taxes. The constitution cannot be set aside, along with students’ best interests, because the state is now struggling to cover its budget. And complying with...

“No Kansas Supreme Court justice has lost a retention election since the judicial system took its current form in 1958. However, there is an unprecedented level of hostility emanating from the Legislature, governor and many organizations that decry the court’s recent rulings on anti-abortion laws, death penalty verdicts and school...