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…

If cell phones had been as prevalent as they are today in my mom’s time, she would have kept hers on mute.  I can’t tell you how many times she answered the phone in an…

In November 2021, I wrote  on the prevalence of lead pipes in our state.  The number of lead pipes in Kansas is particularly high, comparatively,  because lead mining was a major industry in southeast Kansas…

Joe Simitian long had his eye on a seat in Congress. It would have been a fine way to cap his 40-year political career. “I viewed it as an opportunity to improve the lives of…

The discovery of bird flu virus particles in milk has moved the federal government to take more aggressive action to prevent the further spread of H5N1 on dairy farms. The Agriculture Department has rightly issued…

May 24 is the 100th anniversary of the Rogers Act, the law that established, for the first time in our country, a professional Foreign Service. Before the Rogers Act, the United States was represented abroad…

I am a lifelong Republican. I am also a longtime NPR listener and supporter and, at times, have been a manager. As you can imagine, I have a few thoughts about the firestorm set off…

The We the People competition has trained young Americans to know and engage in our democratic system for over 30 years. It has long been recorded that Benjamin Franklin, when departing the Constitutional Convention in…

Perhaps it’s because Rep. Fred Gardner remembers when Coffey County “had nothing,” that he’s acutely aware of the difference a major industry like the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant can have on a region.  …

Like many of you, I’ve seen volunteers for the United Kansas Party over the past few months collecting signatures to gain ballot access as a legitimate political party. I’m happy to see them out there,…