Dear editor, From every dark cloud has a silver lining. Climate warming has permitted archaeologists plying the Yukon, where ice shelves and glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates, to find important artifacts left by paleo…

Dear editor, I have received word from the Kansas State High School Activities Association that Marvin Smith was not selected for the 2022 class of Hall of Fame, but that his file on record will…

Dear editor, I read with interest the article in the Nov. 16 Iola Register by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Common sense dictates that if youth under age 21 are not deemed to have adequate mental…

Dear editor,  Some Kansas City leaders aren’t embracing pursuit of the 2024 Republican National Convention and the publicity it would accrue. I understand the reluctance. In 1976, with the Vietnam experience essentially history, I attended…

Dear editor, Being first and foremost in sports a baseball fan, I read with interest Tim Dahlburg’s column in Tuesday’s Register concerning his opinion that the Houston Astros, because of cheating a few years ago,…

Dear editor, I am a registered Republican voter. Anyone who knows me very well, and probably many who don’t know me very well at all, would likely be surprised by this fact. My political, philosophical,…

Dear editor, I noticed stories the last few days mentioned that deaths from Covid in the U.S. had surpassed those of the Spanish flu during World War I. Each being in the neighborhood of 675,000.…

Dear editor,  The USD 257 Board of Education is pursuing a COVID-19 policy designed to manage crisis, not to prevent a crisis.  The Board is ignoring how much more contagious the Delta variant is, the…

Dear editor, I can’t see what pleasure anyone can get from driving their vehicle out on the football field and damaging the turf. The field belongs to the school, but the community has invested in…

Dear editor, It has occurred to me that violence happening during the withdrawal of U.S. service personnel from Afghanistan is as trying for the Taliban as it has for the U.S., other than perhaps the…