2020 Columns Max sitting in a window of the newsroom in 1986 at the Pittsburg Morning Sun. The photo was taken by his friend, Ray Brecheisen, a staff photographer at the paper. Max is a regular opinion contributor at Kansas Reflector. Below are links to his columns. 2020: This story of a famous photograph, taken at the end of a horrific year, starts and ends in Kansas Kansas is paying the ultimate price for doubt-peddling free-market lobbyists Calling Dr. Crumbine — Kansas is sick and needs a prescription How a small act of kindness in Kansas on Election Day gave me hope for America Until we end Electoral College, hundreds of thousands of Kansans’ votes for president won’t matter How Kansas’ infamous goat gland doctor carved a political path for Donald Trump Speaking of white supremacists, remember these boys who did not make Kansas proud Kansas’ Confederate flag fliers say, ‘Honk if you love hate’ This pandemic Labor Day, it’s still a ‘Jungle’ in Kansas In solidarity with protesters, Kansas cops should surrender military hand-me-downs Kansas lawmakers’ reliance on ‘personal responsibility’ poisons well of public health We need to see more names and faces of Kansans lost to COVID-19