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Eagle editorial: United for rail service

May 16 at 5:47 p.m.

The questions about reviving passenger rail through Wichita still start with “if” rather than “when,” but hopes surged last week when Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Sly James formally joined Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer in advocating for connecting the cities via passenger trains.

  • Eagle editorial: NBC behind the count

    May 15 at 5:29 p.m.

    The National Baseball Congress hasn’t struck out, but its financial struggles and those of its current manager have put it behind the count.

  • Eagle editorial: Hopes for session

    May 14 at 4:49 p.m.

    This week Kansans variously have heard that the private talks on taxes involving Gov. Sam Brownback and top GOP lawmakers are going well and at an impasse. Such important fiscal negotiations should be held with a broad, bipartisan range of legislators participating and the public watching. While we wait in the dark, though, here are some hopes for what will and won’t happen in the session’s remaining days:

  • Eagle editorial: IRS abused power

    May 13 at 6:06 p.m.

    Politics have no place at the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS’ abuse of power in targeting conservative organizations demands more than the outrage the president exhibited Monday or the apology the agency issued Friday.

  • Kansas views on sales tax, legal fees, redistricting, school drug test

    May 10 at 5:07 p.m.

    Sales tax – The idea of voting to extend the sales tax likely has caused considerable angst on the part of many state representatives in recent weeks, but it is something they should do. The simple truth is all levels of government are responsible for funding some services that cannot be ignored.

  • Eagle editorial: Disclose lobbying

    May 10 at 4:59 p.m.

    Lobbyists serve a valuable role in the legislative process, often providing needed expertise on complicated issues. But they shouldn’t have undue influence, particularly if it comes from wining and dining lawmakers.

  • Eagle editorial: Lawmakers not helping

    May 9 at 5:20 p.m.

    As lawmakers wrap up this year’s legislative session, they should wrap their heads around the challenges facing school districts and many Kansas families. And how little lawmakers have done to help.

  • Eagle editorial: Collect online sales tax

    May 8 at 5:30 p.m.

    The days of needing to protect the fledgling Internet are long gone, and online retail sales should be taxed the same as sales at local brick-and-mortar businesses.

  • Eagle editorial: Wrap up session quickly

    May 7 at 6:07 p.m.

    Legislative leaders should keep the veto session that starts Wednesday focused and brief by concentrating on four important issues – taxes, the budget, Medicaid and KanCare – and avoiding last-minute shenanigans.

  • Eagle editorial: Don’t delay Medicaid expansion

    May 6 at 6:19 p.m.

    With the clock running out on this year’s legislative session, it appears as if Gov. Sam Brownback and state lawmakers may put off until next year the decision on whether to expand Medicaid. Though delaying would be better than blocking expansion, it still would be costly, especially for Kansans who need health insurance.

  • Kansas views on higher ed, legal fees, gun permits, tax revenue

    May 6 at 5:29 a.m.

    Higher ed – Gov. Sam Brownback toured many of the state’s colleges and universities recently, telling supporters that holding higher education funding steady is essential to Kansas’ economy. Colleges are full of smart people, however, and the mixed message of Brownback’s tour escaped no one.

  • Eagle editorial: Shot in the foot

    May 3 at 6:35 p.m.

    Kansas lawmakers were warned about the constitutional problems with the Second Amendment Protection Act. Yet they passed it overwhelmingly and the governor, an attorney, proudly signed it.

  • Eagle editorial: Reform redistricting

    May 2 at 5:31 p.m.

    Last spring the Legislature failed spectacularly at its once-a-decade job of redistricting, so paralyzed by GOP infighting that three federal judges ended up redrawing the maps. This week Kansas got a bill for that humiliating display – $389,000 the judges say it must pay for attorneys’ fees and expenses stemming from the resulting lawsuit. Consider it a fresh reminder of the need to do something as a state to reform redistricting for 2022, 2032 and beyond.

  • Eagle editorial: Sales tax has ripple effects

    May 1 at 5:22 p.m.

    If Gov. Sam Brownback persuades the House next week to hang onto the higher sales-tax rate after June 30, he may avoid budget cuts to higher education, help offset last year’s income-tax cuts and further drive down the state income tax. As always, though, such action in Topeka could have ripple effects on local governments, including what it would do to their ability to use local sales taxes for local needs.

  • Eagle editorial: Heed pleas of parents on I/DD care

    April 30 at 6:14 p.m.

    Gov. Sam Brownback should heed the pleas of parents of intellectually and developmentally disabled Kansans and keep long-term care services out of KanCare.

  • Eagle editorial: Close casino smoking loophole

    April 29 at 5:55 p.m.

    If tribal and privately owned casinos around the country insist on allowing smoking, that’s their business – though behind the times and bad for the health of their employees and customers. But it is Kansans’ business that state-owned casinos continue to allow smoking, and disappointing that state lawmakers show dwindling interest in righting that wrong.

  • Kansas views on gun resolutions, gun vote, drug tests, university funding, coaches’ pay

    April 29 at 5:37 a.m.

    Gun resolutions – Governments of Ulysses, Syracuse and Lakin recently passed resolutions endorsing the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Grant and Seward counties did the same. In doing so, they’ve raised a simple question from many observers: Why bother?

  • Eagle editorial: What citizens want

    April 26 at 5:54 p.m.

    A community that sounds out its citizens can design its own future accordingly. Credit the city of Wichita and Sedgwick County for doing the Wichita-Sedgwick County Community Investments Plan survey and, more important, for promising to gather and be guided by more input in the coming days. It was good of them to ask, and the survey findings are illuminating and encouraging as far as they go.

  • Eagle editorial: Funds needed for schools

    April 25 at 5:41 p.m.

    Good for Gov. Sam Brownback for recognizing that the state may lose its lawsuit over school funding and need more tax revenue. But where is this reflected in his budget? And hasn’t he already pledged increased sales-tax revenue for other purposes, including further reducing the state’s income taxes?

  • Eagle editorial: Open up Legislature

    April 24 at 5:40 p.m.

    State leaders should be fast-tracking streaming-video capability at the Statehouse, not trailing other states on high-tech transparency. The more open the Legislature is to public view, the better.

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