Kansas lawmakers talk a good game about letting the citizens decide, but only if they get to choose the topic and the timing.

Many states provide for direct, or pure, democracy with citizen-initiated ballot measures for new laws and/or vetoes through ...

Laws without lawmakers. Sadly, Kansas does not allow that; Gov. Joan Finney was the last to earnestly push the issue in the early 1990s. Technically, SCR 1611 is not direct democracy either ...

Laws without lawmakers. Sadly, Kansas does not; Gov. Joan Finney was the last to earnestly push the issue in the early 1990s. Technically, SCR 1611 is not direct democracy either, but it’s close.

She’s also Irish Catholic, as were governors Kathleen Sebelius and Joan Finney. In the other corner you have the Satanic Grotto, a group of Kansas religious anarchists who would like to express their ...