America’s 200th birthday was inspirational, its 250th is a joke | Opinion

President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration is a farce, and Kansas congressmen are trying to spin it as less horrifying than it is.

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No, MAGA friends, Antifa didn’t put algae in the Deflecting Pool (and that’s not a typo) | Opinion

A widely shared viral post on X and Facebook came from the most suspect of sources, but Trump supporters fell for it hook, line and sinker.

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Wichita Christians sing Kumbaya in the face of Nazi provocation | Opinion

Pastor’s response to threats after worship service protesting ICE shooting: “Live your life in ways that piss off neo-nazis.”

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Opinion: The biggest mistake in the Wichita sales tax proposal is . . .

Using part of a 1% sales tax to provide property tax relief would send about as many dollars out of Wichita as it would bring in.

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Democracy’s under fire in Oklahoma and they’re still better off than we are | Opinion

The Oklahoma Legislature is trying to cripple the state’s ballot initiative process; Kansas doesn’t even have one.

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KS GOP’s fake post of Gov. Kelly in sombrero crosses the line to blatant racism | Opinion

Kansas Republican Party shows its white-supremacist underbelly in Facebook post on SNAP, mimicking President Trump’s racist online antics.

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Trump needs to tamp down Charlie Kirk fire, not pour gasoline on it | Opinion

In dealing with crisis of the Utah shooting, the president should take some cues from Wichita mayors, past and present. | Opinion

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I learned about battling dictatorship from a PBS show. Now let’s go save PBS Kansas. | Opinion

Federal cuts in public broadcasting slashed a quarter of the budget at KPTS Channel 8; emergency pledge drive coming Wednesday. | Opinion

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‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passes: Kansas has seen this movie and knows how it ends | Opinion

Donald Trump’s budget bill has passed Congress, essentially repeating Kansas’ disastrous Brownback Tax Experiment at the national level.

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I was paid to attend Democratic rep’s town hall in Wichita last weekend | Opinion

Truth revealed about the Chris Murphy - Maxwell Frost town hall at Wichita State University on Sunday. I was paid to go to it; so were others.

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Wichita town hall draws huge crowd to hear a Florida(!) congressman | Opinion

While Kansas Republicans are hiding out from town halls, a Florida Democrat visits Wichita to field voter questions.

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Wichita PR video of police dog mauling junkyard burglary suspect is sickening | Opinion

Creepy video for WPD’s “Well Done Wednesday,” on X, shows suspect screaming under attack by police German Shepherd, set to pulse-pounding techno music.

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When your own US reps and senators won’t talk to you, borrow someone else’s | Opinion

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy and Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost to hold town hall in Wichita Sunday, because Ron Estes, Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran won’t.

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Wichita honors LGBTQ Pride while Hegseth’s Navy tries to sink it | Opinion

I’m proud of Wichita passing a Pride Month proclamation; ashamed of Washington plot to strip gay rights icon Harvey Milk’s name off a Navy ship.

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Wichita City Hall ignored warning signs on Ken-Mar project risk from the start | Opinion

Project fails to uplift economically challenged neighborhood; developers sold property, leave city holding the bag on $1.8 million of $2.5 million loan.

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Why does the MAGA right hate the word ‘democracy’ so much? | Opinion

The right loves to argue we’re a republic, not a democracy. What’s the difference?

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Beretta and Bass Pro can’t be sued in Kansas college football shooting. Why not? | Opinion

The Kansas Supreme Court excused a gunmaker and gun dealer from lawsuit in a shooting that cost an athlete his leg.

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How Trump and the Sedgwick County GOP tried to steal Easter | Opinion

The holiest day on the Christian calendar is not the time for political attacks and fundraising.

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Wichita councilwoman’s censure case reflects badly on county GOP | Opinion

Sedgwick County Republican Party stalwarts are wrong to go after Wichita City Council member Becky Tuttle over a vote on transgender proclamation.

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Make America Gangsters Again: Sen. Roger Marshall wants to bring back sawed-off shotguns | Opinion

Short-barrel shotguns and rifles were banned in the 1930s; why would anyone, much less a senator, want them back?

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Maggie Ballard goes to Washington and cold-shoulders MAGA Sen. Roger Marshall in photo op | Opinion

Hilarity ensues when Wichita City Hall posts awkward photo of council members and senator posing together at D.C. gathering.

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Senator Marshall, you’re no Dwight Eisenhower. And neither is Donald Trump | Opinion

Sen. Roger Marshall misappropriates the spirit of Eisenhower to justify President Donald Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine.

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Washington attack on women’s voting rights mirrors Kansas mistake of 14 years ago | Opinion

The SAVE Act’s “proof of citizenship” nonsense is the same play as Kris Kobach’s SAFE Act, which disenfranchised 30,000 Kansans.

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Kansas congressman hails actions of Trump, Musk and DOGE, but with errors | Opinion

Wichita Rep. Ron Estes distorts international USAID projects and Social Security issues in Republican Party meeting.

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Bowling for (tax) dollars with Michael O’Donnell — what could go wrong, Kansas? | Opinion

Disgraced Wichita politician’s bill to give tax breaks to bowling alleys shows why lobbyists shouldn’t be able to introduce legislation.

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Sen. Roger Marshall comes out as racist and sexist with DEI take on D.C. plane crash | Opinion

Following President Trump’s lead, Marshall blames women and minority hiring for tragic crash that killed 67 people.

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We don’t need City Hall’s advice on how to cover air tragedy | Opinion

City government overstepped with ill-informed Facebook post on coverage of last week’s D.C. plane crash.

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As Kansas mourns tragic crash, Trump’s talking points are DEI and dwarfs | Opinion

If President Donald Trump was trying to comfort Wichitans and others rocked by Flight 5342 D.C. plane disaster, he missed the mark.

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‘I just saw a fireball and then it was gone; I haven’t seen anything since they hit the water’

Reagan National Airport traffic-control recordings tell part of the story of the Wichita to Washington plane crash and response.

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