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 ...

Joan Finney in August 1994 and retained after Graves, a Republican, took office in January 1995. Simmons said he wanted to remain in corrections and stay in Kansas. The El Dorado wardens position ...

Burglar James Rogers has been jailed after carrying out a professional raid at a storage unit. The 40-year-old targeted UK Storage at Tunstall Retail Park just days after carrying out a ...

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 ...

Forward Rui Hachimura continues to be unavailable due to a bout of patellar tendinopathy, and now forward Dorian Finney-Smith is banged up. Finney-Smith will reportedly miss Monday's contest because ...

Joan Didion haunts Los Angeles. In January, as catastrophic fires ripped through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, Didion’s name became an echo on social media timelines as Angelenos shared ...

Forward Rui Hachimura continues to be unavailable due to a bout of patellar tendinopathy, and now forward Dorian Finney-Smith is banged up. Finney-Smith will reportedly miss Monday's contest ...

However, the Lakers will be extremely shorthanded. One of the players L.A. will have to play without is their forward, Dorian Finney-Smith. Finney-Smith is ruled out due to left ankle soreness.

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in ...