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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., right, speaks with Kentucky House Minority Whip Jim DeCesare during the Graves County GOP Breakfast, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016 in Mayfield Ky. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., right, speaks with Kentucky House Minority Whip Jim DeCesare during the Graves County GOP Breakfast, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016 in Mayfield Ky.
A major rating agency on Tuesday downgraded Kansas' credit rating for the second time in two years because of the state's budget problems. S&P Global Ratings dropped its rating for Kansas to "AA-," from AA, three months after putting the state on a negative credit watch.
When President Harry S. Truman was personally negotiating with labor leader John L. Lewis to avert an economically crippling coal strike in 1946, the miners' top priority was not higher wages or more vacation but to improve the deplorable state of health care in the coalfields. They succeeded when Truman signed an agreement promising lifelong health and retirement benefits, paid for by a royalty on coal production.