Dear editor:I decided to write this letter concerning the route of the haul trucks to the Monarch Cement plant.When you’re driving one of these trucks you are sitting high enough you can see over the…

Dear editor,With the recent Herff Jones announcement to close the Iola plant, and its associated painful impact on the Iola area, I was struck by the ironic  timing of a news item in last Saturday’s…

Dear editor,The news in the papers and on TV is all about wages and inequality. If you are a small business and are struggling to make a go of it, I can see not wanting…

Dear editor:I’ve made my phone call to Dana Daugharthy and volunteered to help with two track meets.We could use your help.On Thursday, May 14, Iola High School will host the Pioneer League Track Meet. Iola…

Dear editor,I thought Jim Gilpin’s letter was great. But there is another thing wrong with Kansas. It’s the people that vote only for the party. I am a Republican but I have always voted for…

WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? URBAN CONSERVATIVES HATE RURAL KANSAS AS, APPARENTLY, DOES OUR GOVERNORCircle the wagons, rural Kansans, the conservative representatives and senators of our urban centers and our governor are out to destroy…

Dear editor,The attitude in Topeka toward the arts is the same I encountered when trying to get deferred status to finish art school in the early 1950s. Was told the country  needed engineers, not damn…

Dear editor,Our governor, if you want to call him that, is trying very hard to turn our wonderful state into a socialist state similar to the old U.S.S.R., or Russia. First he attacked our health…

Dear editor, Has anyone else been having trouble with the postal service or is it just me? The trouble started last Christmas when an empty envelope from a Christmas card was returned to me marked…

Dear editor,Since T-WORKS, the state’s current 10-year transportation program, was passed in 2010, over $700 million has been diverted from the Kansas Department of Transportation to other state agencies due to budget problems caused by…