OPINION

BREAKING NEWS

Details: July 23 2026

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Jim Rice, Liberal

After consultation with the county attorney and the members of the recall team, we have decided not to pursue the effort recalling Seward County Commission Chair Steve Helm as a large portion of our concerns have been addressed and satisfied. The continued effort to see Seward County was following the strict landfill law on how

funds are to be used was satisfied at the last Seward County Commission meeting, and now we agree that the salary of the assistant county administrator is being properly funded via the General Fund.

Details: July 21 2026

GUEST COLUMN, Elizabeth Patton, Director, Americans for Prosperity Kansas

It’s no surprise that Gov. Kelly and the nominating commission – who regularly donate to Kansas’ most progressive candidates - chose yet another leftist judge to the Supreme Court. This should be the final nail in the coffin of this corrupt and undemocratic process.

Kansans deserve better than a clique of activists masquerading as impartial experts selecting the most qualified judges as nominees for our highest court."

Details: July 21 2026

GUEST COLUMN, Brittany Jones, President, Kansas Family Voice

July 13, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly appointed K. Christopher Jayaram as the next Kansas Supreme Court Justice. He will fill the vacancy created by Chief Judge Marla Luckert's retirement. Judge Jayaram is currently a Johnson County District judge who was appointed by Governor Kelly.

Brittany Jones, Esq., President, Kansas Family Voice provided the following statement:

Details: July 21 2026

LETTER TO THE EDITOR, Kansas attorneys

The undersigned Kansas attorneys, representing a range of legal practices including prosecution, criminal defense, family law, adoption, civil litigation, and other areas of law, announce their support for the proposed constitutional amendment regarding the selection of Kansas Supreme Court justices and encourage Kansans to vote YES on the Right to Vote Amendment.

As attorneys, we recognize that this amendment would require our profession to relinquish a privilege that attorneys have held for decades, the ability to vote for attorney members of the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission. While we respect the commission and the attorneys who have faithfully served on it, we believe the time has come to place all Kansans on equal footing in the process of selecting the state’s highest court.

Details: July 17 2026

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

Our culture celebrates freedom, perhaps more loudly than any generation before. Current slogans and ads promise liberation, yet more than ever many feel trapped - enslaved to desires, addictions, broken relationships, anxiety, and emptiness. With timeless clarity, the apostle Paul spoke to our situation in 1 Corinthians chapters 5 and 6.

The young church in Corinth existed in a prosperous, cosmopolitan, but morally chaotic city, famous for its temple to Aphrodite and an anything-goes reputation. Paul confronted head-on their problems, and ours, with the transforming power of the Good News in Jesus Christ. In chapter 5, he set forth that faith in Christ produces a new morality - not one that simply modifies behaviors, but one that offers a vital, life-changing presence. In chapter 6, he connected the Corinthians' new morality to Christian liberty, in both permissible and non-permissible areas.