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Political thoughts from the Missouri-Kansas border

Political Games are Killing Us

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- January 11, 2021

Is politics a game? In last week’s column, I said no. Treating politics as a game leads to poor policy and more COVID deaths.

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Fighting to Preserve the College Experience

- August 14, 2023

College life is about so much more than getting just enough credits to graduate. The whole college experience is under threat, and it is worth preserving, I wrote in my latest MPSA blog entry .

Re-thinking the Suburbs

- September 05, 2023

Kansas today is a predominantly suburban state. The suburbs were built with exclusive zoning, Interstate highways, and single-family houses. With housing costs skyrocketing, it is time for a rethink- but it won’t be easy, I wrote in last week’s column .

Kansas Redistricting 2021

- August 31, 2021

Kansas Current Districts Despite its small size, the Third District near Kansas City is in fact the most-populous one in the state today, requiring rebalancing. The "Big First" (blue) and Second (green) have lost population. Kansas 2021: This Author's Proposed New Districts This map avoids a Missouri-to-Colorado Big First and splits only two counties. No cities are split. In Johnson County, the cities of Gardener, Edgerton, Spring Hill, and DeSoto move to the Second District along with some unincorporated rural areas. The rest of the county stays in the Third District with all of Wyandotte County (Kansas City). Kansas 2021: GOP Gerrymander? Rumors abound that the Republican supermajority may try to split the Third District to eliminate its Democratic-voting majority. The map below shows what that might look like, with the Big First wrapping around the Second to collect Wyandotte County, while Johnson County, which is now majority-Democratic, is placed in a distric