According to the most recent data from Pew Research Center, National Election Studies, Gallup, ABC/The Washington Post, CBS/New York Times and CNN polls, only one-fifth of Americans say they trust the federal government to do…

When I was governor of Kansas for much of the 1980s, both sides of the aisle focused on the success of our state.  Sure, we had disagreements on how to attain success. But at the…

April 30, 2022, was the most shattering day of my life. My beloved mother, Naomi Judd, who had come to believe that her mental illness would only get worse, never better, took her own life…

When my daughter called to say she and her family could come Monday to enjoy the holiday with us, I bit my tongue. But inside I screamed, “But the U.S. Open is on!” Therapists say…

When an estimated 92 million Americans expected hit the nation’s roads over this Labor Day weekend, more of them will be driving used cars than ever before. I’ll be among them — behind the wheel…

Internationals are helping put Iola on the map. Two stories in Friday’s Register highlight those from abroad. One features Yuki Ikezaki, a Japanese soccer player at Allen Community College, The other was the recent visit…

Thomas Jefferson once wrote critically of those who “look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.” While he firmly opposed “frequent and untried…

When pro-Trump extremists converged in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, they followed precedents that had been in the works for a long time. In winter 1979, the American Agriculture Movement led a “tractorcade” from…

After I heard the news of the death of Frederick Buechner, I walked over to a bookcase in my study that I visit more than any other. These shelves are filled with what seems too…

One year after the 2014 school bond issue was soundly defeated, then-school board president Tony Leavitt recruited Dan Willis to run for a seat on the board. “I wish I could say it was all…