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The day after his administration canceled five public meetings aimed at gathering reaction to the imposition of a 4 percent cut to Medicaid providers, Gov. Sam Brownback announced last week that he wants to reverse the cut. Instead, he wants to increase a provider tax on hospitals.
I do not know if American democracy will survive this bizarre election year, but if it does not make it, I can predict the cause of death. The smoking gun will be the growing, highly toxic, self-serving, and baseless belief that whenever one's favored candidate, party or issue loses an election, it must be because "the system" was "rigged" by the winning side.
If former Vice President Al Gore had his way, we would have only one year left to enjoy the convenience of our cars. In his 1992 book, "Earth in the Balance," Gore called for the elimination of automobile internal combustion engines within 25 years.
Donald Trump wants NATO members to pay their fair share into the transatlantic alliance, and that idea is nothing new. And it's still a bipartisan stance.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan's founding. At its height, the KKK boasted an estimated 5 million members and dominated politics across the South.
Timing in politics is everything. That axiom makes the pending opening on the Supreme Court of Canada an interesting and increasingly controversial one.
For Kansas' elected officials, the message is clear: Your commitment to investing in public health is fundamental to our pursuit of stronger, healthier communities. It happens every day.
News this week that insurance giant Aetna would pull out of Obamacare exchanges in 11 of 15 states resulted in a chorus of "I told you so" from those opposed to the Affordable Care Act. And no wonder.
Shaken by the fact he's losing, Donald Trump has fled into the parallel universe of the extreme right - and apparently plans to stay there for the remainder of the campaign. Let's see if the rest of the Republican Party is dumb enough to follow him.
JE SUIS OMRAN. Somewhere on the Internet there must be such a meme - a photo of Omran Daqneesh, the 5-year-old Syrian boy pulled from rubble in Aleppo, emblazoned with that familiar tag, "Je suis ..." "I am" has become the preface to tragedy, most often a massacre, like the one at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, but not always.
It shall soon be time to mark the first anniversary of the Liberal win in the 2015 Canadian election. Perhaps it is a time to reflect on the changes Justin Trudeau has made in Canada in that short time... There is no doubt at all that Justin Trudeau has extended the normal "honeymoon" period of any new government.
If we learn anything useful from the news these days it is that history has proven Winston Churchill to be prophetic when he said: "Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king."
Sreedhar Potarazu, an ophthalmologist and entrepreneur, is the founder of Enziime , a software company focused on providing data science applications to assess health care delivery. He is the author of " Get Off the Dime: The Secret of Changing Who Pays for Your Health Care ."
U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford may reconsider his support for Donald Trump if the Republican presidential nominee does not release his tax returns. Sanford, R-S.C., spelled out his case in an op-ed for The New York Times which ran in the paper Sunday.
In this regular blog, Charlie Glass of the Glass Management Group takes a closer look at farm equipment forecasts and OEM shipments to dealers vs. dealers' retail sales. For several years Glass has been developing his own annual outlook for tractor and combine unit sales, as well as field inventory and retail sales.
"She is bad," said a four-year old girl, pointing at the TV where a broadcast showed Hillary Clinton speaking to her supporters. "We don't like her," she continued and proceeded to dip her sushka , a Russian pretzel, into the tea my mother had made for her.
I read Ginger Gibson's wire service piece on Evan McMullin throwing his hat into the already crowded presidential race . After finishing, I had to take a deep breath and resign myself to the inevitable a Hillary Clinton is going to be our next president.
A year ago, my children were abducted to a war zone in Iraq by their father while on a court-approved "vacation to Europe." The past year has been an excruciating - and unfulfilled - quest to bring Sharvahn, Rojevahn, Dersim and Meitan home.
What can we say? The only certain thing is that Ayatollah Khamenei is watching this quintessentially Western open debate with amusement. The most conservative Iranian newspaper, Kayhan, which is considered the mouthpiece of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, yesterday led with a most unusual front page headline: "A Zionist think tank leader says Islamic State is useful in the battle against Iran.
More Ohio voters ought to pay attention to the state Supreme Court as these young Ohioans are doing during a tour of the Ohio Supreme Court building. Here's what's supposed to be the capstone argument of Donald Trump's ever-shrinking cult: "It's the Supreme Court, stupid."