Missouri-Kansas Line

  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 .

 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 .  

  Cyclist and pedestrian deaths are up since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Money is available to make our roads safer– and safer does not have to mean boring.  A lifelong car enthusiast, I wrote about this in   last week’s column .

  At selected heavy traffic construction sites, the Kansas Department of Transportation is now promoting the "zipper merge" instead of the early merge. Change can be hard--and this is an example of policymaking in the real world, I wrote in last week's column .

  In last week’s column, I discussed the dilemmas of Trans Kansans and their families for whom things have become so hostile, they feel their only choices are to move away or buy guns. The column was  picked up by Yahoo! News.

 Today, debates in Kansas over faith and politics often turn on the views of conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians. Yet there are plenty of other well-established faith traditions here, too. In last week's column, I offered a  brief primer  on the beliefs of liberal Christians.

  In 2019, the Governors of Kansas and Missouri agreed to a truce ending the absurd “border war” of tax breaks given to KC-area business just for moving across the state line. It is holding, but the Kansas Legislature needs to make it permanent and then tackle tax reciprocity, I wrote in  last week’s column.