Recent Kansas Editorials

Kansas has for decades struggled with depopulation of its rural areas. Gov. Sam Brownback has tried to deploy strategies to reverse that, both as a U.S. senator and now as governor, with programs such as a "New Homestead Act" and rural opportunity zones.

Such efforts largely have failed to stop the outmigration, especially of young people who are eschewing agriculture careers in favor of the bright lights of the big cities.

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