The lack of security was the predominant theme at Tuesday’s forum concerning the  $9.95 million bond issue to expand and renovate a section of the Allen County Courthouse. After 22 years of being warned the…

A long time ago, when my children were little, I found out our babysitter, a low-income woman with a child of her own, had been taking them to the local park, where they all got…

Last week, a bipartisan commission of former state lawmakers finished working on and recommended a solution to a long-standing problem: Kansas’s terrible legislative pay scale. Currently our state legislature, which is officially supposed to meet…

The road to renewal in Kansas runs through a single political party: the Republican one. While Democrats have a traditionally wide-ranging coalition — all the way from free-market capitalists to democratic socialists and beyond —…

Earlier this year, I shared with Kansans that I had been diagnosed with breast cancer. I also shared that I expected to make a full recovery. Following surgery and several radiation treatments, I am thrilled…

Oftentimes, it takes getting away to get a closer perspective of home. Or yourself. Such is the case with a trip my husband, Brian, and I recently took to Ireland with local friends Nancy and…

Take a guess: How much Kansas land does China own?  It’s probably not a lot — you probably would have heard something about it if so — but it can’t be nothing, right? American right-wingers…

What happens in Washington may seem far, far away, but decisions by Congress can and do affect people out here on the High Plains. And if House Republicans have their way, our region could lose…

Benji Backer, a 25-year-old conservative from Wisconsin, was not pleased with a recent Republican presidential primary debate. The candidates either denied, ignored or downplayed the Fox moderator’s question on climate change. Backer is not alone…

“Newspapers are dead,” a solemn but dubious audience of students heard. “In 10 years, they’ll be gone altogether.” We’ve all heard the grim assessment. But it didn’t come this year, when corporate greed downsized far…