In its heyday in the mid-20th century, the steel mill in Weirton, W.Va., employed 13,000 people and offered workers a relatively stable blue-collar life. In 2003, Weirton Steel filed for bankruptcy. Shops downtown boarded up…

According to Vivek Ramaswamy, elite technology firms prefer to hire foreign-born workers, particularly those from India, over American ones because the former are simply more talented. His comment helped kickstart a conversation about work visas…

There used to be something called “fire season.” In the 1970s, when I first became a firefighter, a really big fire was 10,000 acres. Oh, for those good old days. Today, a 10,000-acre fire doesn’t…

NUUK, Greenland — The past weeks have brought Greenland back into the spotlight. This attention provides an occasion to highlight business opportunities in our country. We are a highly skilled and rules-based market economy, and…

Author and theologian Howard Thurman once said, “There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.” In 2025, as we grapple with uncertainty and…

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has hit the home stretch of her second term. She will give only one more State of the State speech after this one, and Wednesday evening found her in a contemplative…

If you’ve been to the grocery store since the new year you may have noticed that state sales tax on grocery items dropped to 0%. In 2022, the Kansas Legislature passed a bill that gradually…

President Vladimir Putin of Russia appalled the world with his full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago. He planned to topple Ukraine’s democratically elected government, install a Kremlin puppet regime and expose the West…

On the first Thursday of this frosty new year, Joe Biden named 20 recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medal, an honor for those “who have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their…

Currently (excuse the pun), electric vehicles make up only about 1% of the car and light truck market in Kansas — but that will change. Even the climate denialism of President-elect Donald Trump cannot stop…