September 2025
Being reckless is not brave
Dear Readers, Since the 2025 Hurricane Season started, six named storms. The National Hurricane Center (NOAA) is watching a tropical wave off the west coast of Africa, which NOAA reports has “favorable conditions” to develop into Tropical Storm Gabrielle.
Kelly opposes Trump's plans for state National Guard
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and more than a dozen other Democratic governors cautioned President Trump against deploying states’ National Guard.
Trump is proving no friend to labor
During the 2024 election campaign, the Republican Party’s historically fraught relationship with organized labor appeared to be changing. Several influential Republicans reached out to unions, seeking to cement the loyalties of the growing ranks of working-class Americans who have been backing Donald Trump’s presidential runs and voting for other members of his party.
Suit against foreign contributions ban stalls
TOPEKA — Kansas officials brought clarity to a new law that bans financial contributions from foreign nationals to campaigns for or against state constitutional amendments, a law at the center of an ongoing lawsuit. The case in federal court has stagnated while parties waited for the Kansas Public Disclosure Commission, formerly known as the governmental ethics commission, to straighten out details of the law.