On the eve of the Australian Open, tennis great Novak Djokovic wants permission to play even though he has not been vaccinated against COVID-19. The defending champion says he deserves a medical exemption to the…

The Kansas Legislature begins its 2022 session today.  We’re hopeful this session will be productive and fruitful for the people of Kansas. The Legislature has the potential to do great things if its members choose…

A sickened New York mourns the deaths of at least 19 Bronxites, including nine children, from an apartment fire that poured smoke throughout a Fordham Heights high-rise. While the city digests the magnitude of the…

President Joe Biden on Thursday gave probably the most forceful and assertive speech of his long political life. Gone was the pleading, folksy, queasy tone that usually permeates his public remarks. Instead, he went hard…

It’s been one year since the biggest vaccination drive in American history began and offered some hope for what had been a gloomy and somber 2020. There was genuine excitement for the vaccines back then.…

The long-awaited state housing and marketing report brought some pretty dismal news for Southeast Kansas.  It takes two incomes to afford a house here — if you can find one. Our housing stock is old…

Like many other packages delivered on Dec. 25, a new telescope arrived in space Saturday with some assembly required. The gradual unfolding of the James Webb Space Telescope, currently en route to its station 930,000…

Vaccinations have become such a politically charged issue in the United States that at least five red states are essentially paying people not to get vaccinated. The five states — Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Kansas and…

It’s not every day that the Biden administration and Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller agree. In fact, it’s more like a total eclipse of the sun. But there is a crucial area where the two…

Now that Kansas’s economy is on solid footing, state lawmakers’ first action come January should be to eliminate the state sales tax on food.  Kansas is only one of a dozen states to tax food.…