Watching Harrison Butker’s speech to the graduating class of Benedictine College, I was thinking to myself that the country owes John Rocker an apology.  Rocker, for those too young to remember, was a star relief…

On May 9, something remarkable happened in Wichita, similar to other remarkable things that have happened in Lawrence, Topeka and elsewhere across Kansas in recent years. At the Century II building in downtown Wichita, elected…

An open letter to Senator Caryn Tyson: At a town hall meeting on May 9, you asserted that the city of Iola has the highest commercial property taxes in the nation. You also said that…

With the median selling price of U.S. homes at nearly $400,000, the rising cost of housing is a top concern of many Americans. One reason homes both new and resold are so expensive is that…

As an American doctor, I felt called to help Palestinians who have faced a collapsing health care system in Gaza. My first trip was in March and I returned for another mission earlier this month,…

Millions of Republicans are struggling with the question of how to vote in November. Not content with the choices offered by either party, they find themselves at a loss as to how to proceed. Some…

In the half-dozen years since the Supreme Court in 2018 effectively allowed legal sports betting in all states, 38 of them and D.C. have to some extent authorized wagering — often with the express purpose…

Kansas policymakers are abuzz about the recent defeat of a sports stadium tax in Jackson County, Mo.  Unfortunately, they’re saying all the wrong things. To paraphrase James Carville, “it’s affordable housing, stupid.” If the tax…

It is common to say “I was heartbroken to hear” that so-and-so died, but I really do feel heartbroken having learned about Alice Munro, who died on Monday. As a writer, she modeled, in her…

While TV news was glued last week to Stormy Daniels’ tell-all testimony and pro-Palestinian demonstrations, scant attention was paid to Vladimir Putin’s tsar-like coronation for a fifth term. Nor to his bellicose parade of Russia’s…