“This is a pretty tough time, to be honest,” farmer Glenn Brunknow told NPR in April. “This is about as grim of time as I’ve seen for crop production. Nothing looks like it’s going to make money right now.”
Much like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman joined forces to fight evildoers as the Justice League, so the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, Kansas Action for Children, and Kansas Appleseed joined forces to combat apathy and misinformation with a recent cross-state tour. The three nonprofits aimed to inform residents about H.R.
For decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has made clear that the First Amendment protects public employees from facing adverse employment consequences for their private expression about matters of public concern, such as the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Kansans often think of themselves as a rural people. Take the two of us, for example. We’re both lifelong Kansans who grew up in farming families, one in central Kansas, the other in northwestern Kansas, in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said that as long as poverty existed, he could never be rich, even with a billion dollars.
In one of his stand-up sets, comedian David Cross rejects all political commentary that tries to answer the question, “What would America’s Founding Fathers think if they were alive today?” For Cross, it is pointless to speculate about the present-day views of men who could not have imagined cotton candy, let alone the machine that makes it. “What’s a machine? What’s a machine???” he screams in their collective voice, recoiling from the sorcery of the state fair.
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Agriculture and industry, as well as municipalities, face looming restrictions on water supplies essential for economic growth. Rural residents experience declines and possible closure of schools, health care facilities, churches, business and professional establishments, and other community services.
I have been so impressed with the good work of Alabama attorney Bryan Stevenson, especially his work going into prisons to help people who have been falsely accused and his work with young teenagers. He is a kind and compassionate soul, and in fact I just received a thank-you note from the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., thanking me for my small donation to their work.
Not long ago, I was haunting the alleys downtown and noting all the infrastructure you don’t see from the storefronts. The utility poles and power lines and electric meters reminded me of the work of R.