Unfounded claims about voter fraud after 2020 continue to polarize the traditionally nonpartisan administration of elections in unfortunate ways. The defeat of many high-profile election deniers in the 2022 midterms should have begun to break…

Unless Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg were supposed to be recalibrating the hot bearing detectors on Norfolk Southern’s trains, it’s hard to blame them for the disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. The derailment, close to…

If history repeats itself, Allen County can expect to prosper handsomely from last week’s news that a mini-Silicon Valley is coming to Coffey County. EMP Shield of Burlington announced plans to build a $1.9 billion…

The Kansas House of Representatives is currently debating the merits of creating Lehigh Portland State Park.  To be honest, it’s a little unnerving to realize the park’s fate lies in the hands of our legislators,…

As a candidate for president in 1976, Jimmy Carter called for a government “as honest and decent and fair and competent and truthful and idealistic as are the American people.” The cynics rolled their eyes.…

The momentum is growing among Kansas House and Senate Republicans to change the state’s tiered income tax system to a flat tax rate, where all income-earners are taxed the same rate.  The outcome is that…

President Joe Biden was greeted by a grateful Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a surprise trip to Kyiv on Monday. In an admirable show of solidarity, Biden declared America’s “unwavering commitment” to the besieged but…

People who are transgender exist and deserve to be treated with dignity. They shouldn’t be legislated away. However, in the Kansas Statehouse, there’s been an awful lot of hand wringing, pearl clutching, teeth gritting, arguing…

The past few years have gotten us used to bad news from the Centers for Disease Control, and this week was more of the same, yet this time it had nothing to do with COVID.…

It looked like something out of a Hollywood sci-fi flick: the White House press secretary assuring a roomful of reporters that there is “no indication of aliens.” Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had to make that…