It was another late night last night with the Kansas House passing the Adoption Protection Act around midnight, and then the Senate also passing the bill around 2:00 a.m. It was hard ...
Read More »Lifeline announces big changes
The Lifeline Children’s Services Kansas team has announced some big news about how God is working. In the Fall of 2017 Lifeline was approached and asked by the Caring Pregnancy Options board ...
Read More »Kansas Jobs Grow Thanks to High Costs of Business in Seattle
A Seattle-area business is picking up stakes and heading east to cash in on the lower cost of doing business in Kansas compared to Seattle. Flow, an industrial waterjet manufacturer, announced it ...
Read More »Despite ruling of liberal judge, Kobach leads in Kansas
The liberal judge who ruled in 2016 that voters do not need to prove citizenship, has continued her crusade against voting laws and is again targeting the Kansas Secretary of State. Judge ...
Read More »Feisty & Feminine Workshop offered on interacting with Muslims
Dr. Dawlat Bishara, Dr. Safwat Bishara, and Former Kansas House Speaker Pro Tem Peggy Mast will join CWA State Director Barbara Saldivar in a frank panel discussion of how to engage authoritatively ...
Read More »Three men guilty of plotting domestic terrorism
A jury found three Kansas men guilty Wednesday of terrorism in plotting to bomb a mosque and apartment complex housing Somali refugees. The was attack stopped by another member of the group ...
Read More »Dodge City responds to teen suicide epidemic
Why are Dodge City teenagers killing themselves? The community came together this week to find answers to the suicide explosion and offer support. “Our youth need to know they are not alone, ...
Read More »Pastor Fred Hollomon, former Chaplain of the Kansas State Senate, Remembered
Fred Hollomon, a Southern Baptist pastor who served as Senate chaplain in Topeka for over 33 years, died February 13, 2018 at his home in Lawrence after a long battle with Alzheimer’s ...
Read More »Gracia Burnham hated herself more than her terrorist captors
During her long captivity in the dense Philippine jungle, Kansan Gracia Burnham came to realize she hated herself. “The hardest thing for me was seeing myself for what I really was. When ...
Read More »City of Topeka and Shawnee County declare war on human trafficking
The Shawnee County Commission, at their meeting on April 5, voted to approve a resolution “declaring war” on human trafficking. The City of Topeka’s governing body had voted 9-0 on April 3 ...
Read More »KS Legislature finally comes to an ugly compromise on school funding
The Kansas House and Senate worked past midnight on Saturday to finally pass a school funding measure. The House mostly got their way, as the amount remained at the $500 million that ...
Read More »Kansas Senate passes school funding bill; constitutional amendment stalls
It appears a constitutional amendment bill designed to end the cycle of school lawsuits in Kansas has stalled for now. After several Senators changed their votes and a call of the Kansas ...
Read More »Legislators hold up Kansas school funding plan; offer Constitutional Amendment to end cycle of lawsuits
For years now, legislators in the State of Kansas have been paying nervous tribute to the Kansas Supreme Court. As reported by the Kansas Policy Institute, the Kansas House developed a school funding plan ...
Read More »Religious liberty in jeopardy in Kansas
The Kansas House of Representatives has rejected HB 2481, the Adoption Protection Act, by a vote of 58 to 64, thus jeopardizing religious liberty in the state of Kansas. The law would preserve ...
Read More »Kansas faith-based adoption agencies under attack by ACLU
When Cara DeCoursey faced an unplanned pregnancy 28 years ago, the Catholic teen knew she was going to give her child up for adoption. “I found strength in a faith-based adoption agency. ...
Read More »Woman at center of landmark segregation case dies
The woman, who at age 10 stood at the center of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education that ended school segregation laws, died Monday. Linda Brown Thompson was ...
Read More »Big-name speakers highlight CWA Kansas State Conference
Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America in Washington, D.C., was the keynote speaker at the Kansas State CWA Conference on March 15, but other well-known locally-based speakers were also on ...
Read More »Hearings to be held on Adoption Protection Act
Faith-based adoption agencies in Kansas have been helping children find their forever homes for more than 60 years. Today, their ability to help kids is threatened. In 2006, Catholic Charities was forced ...
Read More »Atheists upset with Sedgwick County Commission prayer policy
Even though a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court ruling said opening governmental meetings in prayer is constitutional, Kansas atheists are again upset. The target this time? The Sedgwick County Commission which has opened ...
Read More »Man behind Chiefs mascot mask testifies at Prayer Breakfast
Before the Apostle Paul could write a substantial portion of the New Testament, God had to get his attention in a dramatic way on the road to Damascus. Dan Meers, the man who ...
Read More »CWA of Kansas to Hold State Conference in Topeka
CWA of Kansas is part of Concerned Women for America. CWA is the largest public policy women’s organization in the nation. The Kansas State CWA Conference will be held on March 15, ...
Read More »American Pickers wants to make your junk famous
It won’t be just tornadoes crossing the Kansas countryside this spring; episodes of the hit series American Pickers will film across the Sunflower State during May with possible stops in the Kansas ...
Read More »New Activities Added to EasterFest in North Topeka
The Great Football Toss, where kids & adults can throw small footballs at a target on the ground to win one of four bicycles, will be a new event at EasterFest in ...
Read More »Benedictine College Honors 50th Anniversary of “Humanae Vitae”
To those not paying attention, it may not seem newsworthy that a Catholic college would honor a papal encyclical, but Humanae Vitae is no ordinary encyclical, and Benedictine is no ordinary Catholic ...
Read More »Fires, dust storms plague Kansas this week
Winds approaching hurricane force and dry conditions fueled dangerous fires yesterday with gusts of 70 miles per hour in western Kansas challenging firefighters. Wildfires continue to burn across several Kansas Counties Wednesday ...
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