By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Having said a lot of nice things about Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson this week, I'll add one last thought:
He needs to get together with Cerner CEO Neal Patterson and close the deal to bring the new Cerner facility and Wizards soccer stadium to Wyandotte County.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson has been impressive this week.
He drew the line on state giveaways for the Wizards/Cerner deal. How often does a politician do that?
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Kansas Rep. Bill Otto goes to great lengths on YouTube to explain he's not a racist.
Tell you what. He's not a rapper, either.
By Matthew Schofield, Kansas City Star editorial columnist
In case you'd been losing sleep wondering just who would get Sen. John McCain's support in the race for Sen. Sam Brownback's seat in Kansas when he steps down in 2010, the answer is in:
U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Today brings word that the disciplinary administrator who oversees lawyers in Kansas has filed a formal ethics complaint against Stephen Maxwell, one of Phill Kline's top assistants in both the Kansas attorney general's office and later the Johnson County District Attorney's office.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
While asserting that a federal biolab could be built in Kansas to withstand virtually any threat, U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback took a stab at explaining why he and other leaders continue to insist the state would be imperiled if Guantanamo detainees are moved to the maximum security military prison in Leavenworth.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Get used to the sound of it. Governor Sam Brownback.
Ron Thornburgh, the well-liked but underfunded Kansas secretary of state, announced today he was bailing out of a GOP primary. PrimeBuzz has the breaking news.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
What do Kansas Democrats have against on-the-job training?
Now Mark Parkinson's pick for lieutenant governor, a guy named Troy Findley, says he doesn't want to run for the governor's job next year either.
By The Kansas City Star Editorial Board
Gov. Mark Parkinson’s disappointing compromise on the future of coal-fired power in Kansas will require intense monitoring by state officials to protect the public from pollution and rising costs.
Chris KosterBy Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Who says we’re not trendsetters out here in flyover country?
The nation’s capital is in a tizzy this week over U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter’s unceremonious dumping of the Republican Party.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Campaign finance records, like tax forms, can be a quagmire.
One can understand how someone assigned to tally up Kathleen Sebelius's contributions from abortion doctor George Tiller might have missed the $23,000 he made to a political action committee that Sebelius set up eight years ago.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
The Kansas Legislature is testing Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on the abortion issue.
Earlier this session, the GOP-dominated Legislature sent the Democratic governor a bill requiring doctors to make ultrasound or fetal heartbeat monitorings available to patients before abortion procedures.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Why is Barack Obama taking so long to name a Health and Human Services secretary? If he's going to talk about health care during his speech tomorrow, you'd think he'd want to have the HHS vacancy filled.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
If I was in Kathleen Sebelius's shoes (though not those ruby red slippers, please!) I'd take the job as health and human services director if offered.
Kathleen SebeliusBy Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Short but sweet: Kathleen Sebelius should stay in Kansas and keep her commitment to serve as governor through 2010.
She's certainly not the best qualified person in the nation to lead the Health and Human Services Department, bereft of a potential leader with the pullout this week of Tom Daschle.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Tom Daschle's pullout from consideration as Health and Human Services secretary has restarted the Kathleen Sebelius speculation machine.
The prospect of moving some of the Guantanamo detainees to the military prison at Fort Leavenworth has drawn a heap of controversy.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
President Barack Obama on Thursday signed an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay within a year. But where will its approximately 250 prisoners wind up?
Not in Kansas, if Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback can help it.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Having stated her commitment to guiding Kansas through the fiscal crisis, Kathleen Sebelius can't renege and go off to Washington to be Barack Obama's Commerce Secretary. Her word would be trash forever after.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Kansas Lieutenant Governor Mark Parkinson's announcement that he's not interested in stepping up to the governor's office in two years has to be very good news for U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Two special prosecutors have confirmed what most people already figured: Stupidity, arrogance and philandering will short-circuit a political career, but they don't necessarily add up to criminal behavior.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Kathleen Sebelius on Saturday conceded she isn't going to Washington, D.C., after all. There's no shame in that fact, although it's embarrassing for the Kansas governor and her many supporters.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
Loyalty -- a big issue right now in the Kansas Republican party -- might not extend to keeping Kris Kobach in the chairman's seat.
The party's refusal to count the votes of 17 Johnson County precinct leaders because they were accused of violating a "loyalty" plank has opened big rifts in the Kansas GOP.
By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial page columnist
As the former Kansas attorney general and, more recently, as Johnson County district attorney, Phill Kline has justified his aggressive prosecutions of abortion providers by noting that judges have found probable cause to proceed with the cases.
Seventeen Johnson Countians elected by voters as precinct leaders have been disenfranchised by the Kansas Republican Party.
The 17 ran afoul of the party’s loyalty plank. This bylaw states that party members in official capacities risk losing their voting rights in party elections if they aid non-Republican candidates. This includes donating money to a candidate from another party.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
As Barack Obama and Democrats take firmer control in Washington, Kansans now sit saddled with the weakest Republican congressional representation they've had in years. Check it out.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius appears poised to skip out of the job she was elected to do in Kansas. If that happens, she won't be around to deal with Kansas' huge and looming budget challenges in 2009.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
The Election Day lines in Kansas will be long today, and many employees will be asking for time off to vote. But you must know your rights -- and your employer's. Here are the rules.
If you work in Kansas, you usually have a right to some time off to vote.
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has grown accustomed to reading glowing comments about her abilities. The Star contained another such article over the weekend -- just after Barack Obama thankfully passed over Sebelius as his vice presidential pick.
By Abby Brownback
Daughter of Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas,
Teach for America participant
The Millennials are a generation of doers and believers.
It’s a wired cohort with a change-the-world mentality, young people who see what is wrong — and right — with our world on the individual level. Then they fix it.
