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In last week’s column, @MuphdSmith explored some results from the latest Kansas Speaks survey. Voters are skeptical of political institutions and incumbents, worried about the economy, and distrustful of data centers. hayspost.com/posts/712136ef-…
There are plenty of ads making culture-war appeals to rural Kansans this election cycle, but affordability is the real issue, wrote Alex Middlewood in her recent column. hayspost.com/posts/c683df69-…
With Kansans being blitzed with political ads like never before, Bill Fiander unpacked the imagery of the ads and what it says about us in his recent column. facebook.com/claycenterdispa…
There are good signs for Democrats this year, starting with President Trump’s unpopularity. Kansas Democrats have some real openings– but if they fail, it will raise major questions about their ability to function as a political party, wrote Mark Joslyn. hayspost.com/posts/726c0db6-…
In his sermons, Rev. Adam Hamilton has repeatedly expressed his strong disagreement with Christian Nationalism. Now that he seeks a U.S. Senate seat, will he win his battle to define Christianity? @MuphdSmith posed this question recently. hayspost.com/posts/a92eea1e-…
In his recent column, Russell Fox celebrated Constitution Day by asking what it will take to rebuild civic trust in Kansas. mittelpolitan.substack.com/p…
Data centers have become highly contentious these days. Bill Fiander shares some critics’ concerns, but sees potential benefits as well. The solution is to bargain, not ban, he wrote in his recent column. hayspost.com/posts/90c503b2-…
A recent tragedy in Winfield drove home a lesson: political rhetoric on guns does not match public opinion. Kansas deserves better, wrote Alex Middlewood in last week’s column. hayspost.com/posts/c8077f62-…
Why do Democrats do so well in Kansas' gubernatorial elections when Republicans dominate other offices in the state? It may be due to a decades-old miscalculation, wrote Mark Joslyn in last week's column. hayspost.com/posts/09a91008-…
Kansans recently rejected another proposal by the #ksleg by a large majority. With this disconnect between legislators and voters, perhaps Kansas should consider adopting the petition initiative, argued @MuphdSmith in his recent column. hayspost.com/posts/814b493d-…
After moving to Kansas twenty years ago, Russell Fox has had a front-row seat to watching transformations in party politics, changes that got an early foothold here and then swept the country. He reflected on these in last week’s column. mittelpolitan.substack.com/p…
Kansans resoundingly rejected a proposal to replace merit selection with partisan, elected judges last week. In her recent column, Alex Middlewood took a deep dive into the election results. hayspost.com/posts/3d34882d-…
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution has come to Kansas–but not all communities are affected equally. The highest use is urban areas and college towns, wrote Mark Joslyn in his recent column. hayspost.com/posts/8e12a968-…
Forget personality contests, when it comes to selecting a new governor, what matters is, how would they actually govern? Bill Fiander evaluated the front-running candidates in last week’s column. hayspost.com/posts/2fa2d3c0-…
The diverging decisions of two candidates for Kansas governor--Republican Jeff Colyer and Democrat Curt Skoog--say a lot about them and their parties, wrote @MuphdSmith in his July column. hayspost.com/posts/52a8a68c-…
Kansans will soon decide whether or not to switch from merit selection to partisan elections to choose state supreme court justices. This will profoundly alter school funding, wrote Alex Middlewood in last week’s column.*
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Kansas upcoming supreme court vote has become nearly synonymous with one’s stance on abortion rights– Vote No means pro-choice, Vote Yes means anti-abortion. Is this the right way to choose justices, asked Russell Fox? hayspost.com/posts/251e9f47-…
In his Father’s Day column, Bill Fiander reviewed the costs–and benefits–of fathers who are involved in their children’s lives. hayspost.com/posts/4db5af98-…
The backlash against data centers only continues to grow, and it cuts across the usual political dividing lines, wrote @MuphdSmith in last week’s column, which got picked up by both Yahoo! and MSN. yahoo.com/news/politics/arti…
Not all Christians engage in politics to further conservative goals like criminalizing abortion and fighting LGBTQ+ rights. Faith-based groups are organizing to tackle homelessness, mental health, gun violence, and inequalities in criminal justice. hayspost.com/posts/fb90ae55-…