Dear editor,In reference to the article “The cost of a good meal,” on Feb. 10, I was wondering why we always hear shop local?When I was an employee of the food service for USD 257…

Dear editor, I was reading a story last week about Davos, Switzerland, where about 1,500 billionaires meet every year to plan how they can make more money the next year. They pay $20 million to…

Dear editor,As you may or may not be aware, a coalition of groups in Kansas is working to repeal the tax charged to record mortgages on real property. Kansas is one of nine states to…

Dear editor, To the person who ran over and killed our English bulldog Saturday evening between 6:15 and 6:30 in front of our house at 1235 1800 St., and didn’t have the common courtesy or…

Dear editor,I see in the paper Iola is wanting their local builders to build the housing stock. One of the first things you need to fix is the value of the homes not just in…

Dear editor,The more I think about cutting food stamps, the more unfair it seems to be.Congress has been pounding into people’s heads that anyone using food stamps or on assistance, is just too lazy to…

Dear editor, To the owners in the Chanute area who left a beautiful purebred black cocker spaniel: I saw her at daybreak, running up the driveway toward the veterinarian clinic where I work on Mondays.…

To the editor, Recently, I had the misfortune to awaken quite ill. My wife called 911, and my misfortune ceased. The EMTs and my wife got me to the hospital’s  ER here in Iola. The…

Dear editor,Yes, you can legally float down three rivers in Kansas. The Kansas River, the Missouri and the Arkansas. However, that is all.All other rivers and streams are privately owned. Landowners have control to the…

On the morning after my dad Bob Sharp’s funeral, the Oswald Chambers devotion I read compared faith to a river. “Regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be, we…