By Andy Marso | April 14, 2019 In a small back room of his Kansas City, Kansas, art studio, Michael Brantley pointed out a painting stretching across one wall. It was a bird’s-eye view of a man playing a trumpet that Brantley said was once part of a temporary exhibit at the American Jazz Museum. […]

Letter to the editor: Doctor for Medicaid expansion As a retired doctor and lifetime rural Kansas resident, I understand well how access to health care can be a matter of life and death for families and communities. Kansas faces many challenges maintaining services in rural communities. Solutions will require a combination of technology, innovation, risk-taking […]

Letter to the editor: Subverting the democratic process Sen. Wagle is making a mockery of the democratic process by not allowing the Kansas Senate to vote on the expansion of Kansas Medicaid (KanCare). Instead, she wants to head it back to committee, effectively blocking a vote. It appears she cares more for undermining the newly […]

Michelle chats with Sheldon Weisgrau, senior policy advisor for the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, in the wake of a major report by CBS on the increasing number of rural hospital closures. Michelle and Sheldon discuss the fact that it is far more likely that hospitals in the 14 states (including Kansas) that have not […]