DAVE BERGMEIER

While Gov. Sam Brownback is a fellow Republican, GOP lawmakers attending a legislative update did not feel compelled to embrace sweeping changes the governor has suggested in school finance.

BRENT WISTROM

Legislators this week are hearing the pros and cons of Gov. Brownback’s tax reform proposal.

States with lower tax burdens and reduced government spending grow faster, a tax policy specialist with the American Legislative Exchange Council told lawmakers Tues

MELISSA BRUNNER

A national tax policy expert gave his take Tuesday on what's at stake in tax reform.

Jonathan Williams is with the American Legislative Exchange Council. He spoke at a luncheon sponsored by the Kansas Policy Institute, Americans for Prosperity and the Kans

BRENT WISTROM

The divisiveness of state tax policy should be even more pronounced in Topeka today.

STAFF

The conversations are likely to heat up in Topeka Tuesday over Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's proposed tax reforms.

GEORGE PEARSON

A letter claiming that the Kansas Policy Institute is about “making the rich richer” could not have been further from the truth.

A Kansas Policy Institute fundraising letter in December referred to protesters as socialists who want “other people’s money.”

Is Kansas' education system flawed? Does it provide students with the best education possible to prepare them for life beyond high school? In a KAKEland sponsored education summit, one policy group discussed education for Kansas students.

Much has been said about the current school finance formula. I would like to focus on a couple assertions that have been made in the past few months.