Wyandotte County jobs grew 3.6 percent from the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2012. But wages actually dropped 1.4 percent during that same period. The numbers may also tell us something important and sobering about the national economy.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Yet we keep electing incumbents who wind up picking the same leaders for the House and Senate.
Appeals judges decided for the first time that a federal anti-slavery law applies to both the consumers as well as the sellers of sex with children.
President Barack Obama targets the rich: higher income tax rates, phased-out deductions, higher Obamacare levies. By contrast, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback focuses on the poor: fewer low-end credits and deductions, less spending for health care and support for a regressive sales tax. Neither choice reflects much political courage.
Well this is certainly typical of the plague of procrastination that seems to be my lot.
After all the controversy last year over the closing, reopening, revamping and relocating of the University of Missouri Press, it seems everyone connected with the operation may finally be in a happy place.
Republican lawmakers in Kansas and Missouri have said the expansion of Medicaid may be too expensive, or would help implement what they call Obamacare. But rejecting millions in Medicaid subsidies will unquestionably turn taxpayers in both states into health care donors.
