Checks and balances
Editorial Roundup: Florida

By The Associated Press Jun. 09, 2021 07:10 AM EDT
South Florida Sun Sentinel. June 4, 2021. Editorial: Our kids’ education should be based on fact, not propaganda ' Editorial ...

FILE - In this May 12, 2021 file photo, Gov. Tom Wolf speaks at an event in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Beyond the local races on ballots, Pennsylvania’s primary election will determine the future of a governor’s authority during disaster declarations. Voters statewide Tuesday, May 18 will decide four separate ballot questions, including two on whether to give state lawmakers much more power over disaster declarations. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)
Pennsylvania voters impose new limits on governor's powers

By Marc Levy And Michael Rubinkam May. 19, 2021 10:15 AM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2020 file photo, Pennsylvania Sen. Kim Ward, of the 39th district, attends a hearing of the Pennsylvania State Senate Majority Policy Committee in Gettysburg, Pa. Republican lawmakers across the country have tried to roll back the emergency powers that governors wielded during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they ordered businesses and schools shut and mask-wearing in public. On Tuesday, May 18 Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled Legislature is taking its case to voters, in twin constitutional amendments on the primary ballot that would give lawmakers much more power over disaster declarations, whether another pandemic or a natural disaster. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
1st ballot test of governor's pandemic powers starts in PA

By Marc Levy May. 13, 2021 08:00 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania

By The Associated Press May. 12, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
York Dispatch. May 5, 2021. Editorial: Merging Pa. universities a good idea, but more college changes are needed Our...

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, file photo, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection in Topeka, Kan. In March 2021, Kelly enacted a law giving legislative leaders power to revoke her emergency orders. Top Republican lawmakers immediately used it to scuttle a Kelly order meant to encourage counties to keep mask mandates in place. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Lawmakers seek long-term limit on governors' emergency power

By David A. Lieb Apr. 10, 2021 10:34 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press Apr. 05, 2021 09:00 AM EDT
Cleveland Plain Dealer. April 4, 2021. Editorial: Lt. Gov. Jon Husted covers himself in shame by not disavowing ‘Wuhan Virus’ tweet ...

President Nayib Bukele holds his ballots as he prepares to vote in local and legislative elections, at a polling station in San Salvador, El Salvador, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. El Salvador went to the polls in legislative and mayoral elections that could break the congressional deadlock that has tied the hands of President Nayib Bukele. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
El Salvador awaits what president will do with new power

By Marcos Alemán Mar. 12, 2021 06:48 PM EST

FILE – In this Tuesday, July 21, 2020, file photo, then-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder leaves the federal courthouse after an initial hearing following charges against him and four others alleging a $60 million bribery scheme in Columbus, Ohio. On Thursday, March 4, 2021, Householder joined the line of GOP critics of Ohio's anti-coronavirus efforts by introducing his own pair of bills to trim public health officials' powers during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)
Indicted lawmaker introduces bills for govt accountability

By Farnoush Amiri Mar. 04, 2021 05:21 PM EST

Alaska state Sen. Lora Reinbold, an Eagle River Republican, holds a copy of the Alaska Constitution during a committee hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Juneau, Alaska. Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, sent Reinbold a letter on Feb. 18, 2021, saying she has used her position to "misrepresent" the state's COVID-19 response. Reinbold said the letter was "full of baseless accusations and complaints." (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
Alaska governor says lawmaker misrepresents virus response

By Becky Bohrer Feb. 19, 2021 08:18 PM EST

FILE-This Monday, Nov. 9, 2020 file photo shows visitors driving through the COVID-19 testing site at the OhioHealth David P. Blom Administrative Campus in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is expected to provide more details Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 about revelations that the state underreported as many as 4,000 COVID-19 deaths, or more than a third of reported deaths to date. The Ohio Department of Health says those deaths will now be added to the state’s tally of deaths from the coronavirus during the coming week. (Adam Cairns/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
Bill to limit DeWine’s health orders passes in Ohio Senate

By Farnoush Amiri Feb. 17, 2021 12:15 PM EST

Lawmakers tee up May referendum on disaster emergency limits

By Mark Scolforo Feb. 05, 2021 12:00 PM EST
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A divided state House on Friday gave lawmakers' final OK to put on the May ballot a constitutional amendment limiting governors' powers...

FILE - In this March 21, 2019, file photo, state Sen. Rob McColley, speaks about the state gas tax in Columbus, Ohio. The Republican senator said, Wednesday, Jan 27, 2021, that rescinding public health orders made by Ohio governors during an emergency is a matter of checks and balances. The measure proposed this week is one in a series of efforts aimed at GOP Gov. Mike DeWine by members of his own party dissatisfied with the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic and what they consider overreach by DeWine. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins, File)
Ohio curfew to shorten thanks to falling hospitalizations

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins And Farnoush Amiri Jan. 27, 2021 04:02 PM EST

Republican Rep. Jason Monks testifies before the House State Affairs Committee in the Statehouse in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. House lawmakers fine-tuned legislation Wednesday in their power struggle with Republican Gov. Brad Little over emergency declarations stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler)
Idaho lawmakers tweak bill in power struggle with governor

By Keith Ridler Jan. 20, 2021 04:02 PM EST

Attorney General Jeff Landry, right, speaks about medicines being donated by drug companies to help the fight against the coronavirus during a press conference during a press conference at the Governor's Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management, Monday April 6, 2020, in Baton Rouge, La. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards listens at left. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP, Pool)
La. high court returns virus rules dispute to lower court

By Melinda Deslatte Dec. 21, 2020 05:28 PM EST

Analysis: Notes from a 'virtually' crowded courtroom

Nov. 15, 2020 05:00 PM EST
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the House and Senate, together, giveth, can the House, alone, taketh away? That was the constitutional question...

Senate President Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, center, gestures as he talks with Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne, left, the governor's chief budget adviser, and House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, R-Gonzales, right, on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Baton Rouge, La. The three men, all members of the Revenue Estimating Conference, spoke ahead of the conference's meeting. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
No tax hikes, benefit drops for Louisiana unemployment fund

By Melinda Deslatte Oct. 20, 2020 07:23 PM EDT

CORRECTS CHARGES - In a photo provided by the Kent County Sheriff, Adam Dean Fox is shown in a booking photo. Fox is one of several people charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch Whitmer from her vacation home. (Kent County Sheriff via AP)
13 charged in plots against Michigan governor, police

By David Eggert And Ed White Oct. 08, 2020 10:50 PM EDT

European Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova speaks during a media conference on the Rule of Law Report 2020 at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)
European report finds waning of democracy in Poland, Hungary

By Samuel Petrequin Sep. 30, 2020 07:36 AM EDT

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, holds a press briefing on the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, outside the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's wrongs on court, virus; Biden errs

By Hope Yen, Josh Boak And Mark Sherman Sep. 26, 2020 07:13 AM EDT

Recent Kansas editorials

May. 26, 2020 09:00 AM EDT
The Kansas City Star, May 21 The grandiosity of the gaudy, taxpayer-funded, rolodex-building “Madison Dinners” that Secretary of State Mike...