I applaud the Iola-USD 257 school board for their willingness to rethink its laptop policy at the high school. Change is easy to criticize; as an elected official, it’s often easier to just leave things…

We owe so much to the brave men and women of 1776. They had more backbone than the weak-kneed “Trumplicans” we have in Congress today.  Back then, some wanted to stay loyal to England and…

Graham Platner won Maine’s Democratic nomination for Senate on Tuesday, and the party’s elites are rallying ’round the man with the Nazi tattoo. It’s a notable look for a party that has spent a decade…

If history someday defines our current political era as one in which America inexplicably allowed preventable, once-defeated diseases to reemerge and ravage society — and that narrative is growing today with alarming clarity — the…

Of all the strange possibilities the World Cup brings to North Texas, the one that has our attention is a potential match-up between the U.S. and Iran.  It’s a long shot, but it’s not out…

Wednesday’s announcement of 4.2 percent inflation in May, up from 3.8 percent in April, is the worst reading from the Labor Department in three years. Prices are again rising at more than double the Federal…

From Spring Hill to the Flint Hills, Tonganoxie to Finney County, data center proposals provoke strong, public opposition. After pushback, the proposal in Spring Hill was withdrawn. Across the KC metro in Independence, Missouri, two city officials…

On Russian oil, Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran has begun asking the right questions. This week, the Republican senator pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio over repeated waivers of sanctions on the sale of Russian oil…

When President Biden turned 80 in office, he celebrated quietly with his family and hoped nobody else would notice. President Trump will reach that same milestone on Sunday, and there’s supposed to be a literal…

State Rep. Don McLaughlin of Uvalde released a statement on June 1 claiming that parasitic screwworms had almost breached the Texas-Mexico border.  “This is not true,” a post on the USDA’s X account responded. On…