This week, Governor Brownback and his GOP allies made themselves clear: raising sales taxes on working Kansans is the only way forward.

You can add children to the growing list of groups less important to Gov. Sam Brownback than his tax breaks for billionaires and big business. That's because as part of his efforts to save the cratering Kansas budget, Gov. Brownback has proposed taking $9.5 million from an endowment fund set up to pay for early-childhood programs and transfer it to the state's all-purpose general fund to help balance his underwater budget.

You can add children to the growing list of groups less important to Gov. Sam Brownback than his tax breaks for billionaires and big business.

This article appeared in the Emporia Gazette this Wednesday.

Gov. Sam Brownback’s reckless tax breaks for billionaires and big business have put Kansas universities on the chopping block.

If Brownback really cared about higher education funding and the future of Kansas students he would never have signed the worst tax bill in America that asks working Kansans to support the richest Kansans.

Kansas has been home over the years to many progressive leaders as well as folks with wacky ideas. Fortunately, most of our governors and legislative leaders have carefully and patiently moved Kansas along a progressive path with commonsense ideas that made the state a great place to live and work.

This was true until Sam Brownback became governor and started his great experiment on Kansas.

In light of the tragedy at the Boston Marathon, this afternoon the White House announced that President Barack Obama's April 19 event at the University of Kansas has been canceled.

"First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of yesterday's senseless tragedy," Joan Wagnon, Kansas Democratic Party Chair said. "While the President is always welcome in Kansas, we understand that his leadership is needed in Boston during this time of healing."

The Kansas Democratic Party is proud to announce that United States Navy Veteran Keith Humphrey, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jet AirWerks, LLC and Jet AirParts, LLC, and former Kansas State Senate candidate, will serve as Chair of the Kansas Democratic Party Veterans Caucus.