A guide to today’s biggest primaries in Missouri, Washington, Michigan, Arizona, and Kansas
Kansas
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Riding for Free in Kansas City
Big cities have shunned free public transit. Now, KC’s free-fares push may provide transit systems across the country with a ‘how-to’ guide.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Kansas and Missouri Call a Truce in Corporate-Welfare Border War
Governments in both states have wooed Kansas City–area businesses with tax breaks to relocate across state lines. Now they’re partnering to stop the giveaways.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Kansas Takes a Different Direction on Abortion Rights
In a surprise decision, the state supreme court upholds a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Privatizing Health Care for Veterans Doesn’t Add Up
Medicaid privatization in Kansas and Iowa show why outsourcing the VA would have tragic, even fatal, consequences.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Good Riddance, Sam Brownback
The governor may be (finally) leaving Kansas, but his trickle-down legacy has saddled us all.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Kansas Redux: Illinois Legislature Overrides Governor’s Austerity Politics
It’s becoming increasingly clear that conservative governors trying to push trickle-down tax cuts for the rich and austerity for everyone else will, eventually, face a political backlash. Once again, a bipartisan coalition of fed-up legislators has overridden their intransigent governor’s veto to keep their state from driving off the cliff. On Thursday, Illinois Republicans joined […]
Posted inWorking in America
Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion
The Kansas governor’s attempt to create supply-side nirvana in Middle America not only failed to grow the economy—it created a crippling crisis of government that led to a statewide rejection of his politics.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
A Democrat Tries to Pull Off a Kansas Miracle
With Republican Representative Mike Pompeo gone to the CIA, Democrat James Thompson is hoping for the upset of all upsets in Tuesday’s special election in Wichita.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
By Blocking Medicaid, Brownback Shows There is No Limit to His Trickle-Down Folly
The Kansas governor—our Trickle Downer of the Week—vetoed Medicaid expansion legislation, capping his tenure with one more outburst of cruelty.