If there was any doubt President Donald Trump believes he is no longer bound by history or laws — either American or international — it was eclipsed by his astounding proposal that the United States…

On Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly granted aides of Elon Musk access to the department’s payments system, which handles more than $5 trillion and sensitive data on Social Security and Medicare benefits and grants.…

Your representatives in Washington should have spent the weekend screaming bloody hell.  They didn’t.  It’s kind of easy to understand why. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas, along with Sens. Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt of…

Tuesday afternoon Register reporters Vickie Moss and Sarah Haney and I began calling those we thought would be affected by the news that by 5 p.m. that day the federal government was going to freeze…

As I leave the Register — and journalism — to start a new adventure with Thrive Allen County, I’ve been reflecting on the past 28 years in the industry.  My career started in 1997 with…

I don’t live in Chicago or follow the news there, but it didn’t take long for social media to deliver a video of Chicago police officers pulling a live coyote out of a refrigerated display…

A decade ago, then-Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback blew up the state budget and hurt public schools as a result. His “tax experiment” is rightly remembered as a colossal failure. Voters hated it.  Maybe that’s why…

Shame on U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall.  On Friday, Jan. 24, these men voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as U.S. Secretary of Defense. While this is probably not surprising for most people, it…

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…