Kansas is expected to add more than 11,000 new jobs in 2024. The unemployment rate in Kansas is projected to reach 2.6% in 2024, according to the new Kansas Employment Forecast released this month by…

Most days we each face decisions, few with serious consequences.  Others, however, can be harbingers of what’s to come, for good or ill. Though we may be reading too much into it, an instance from…

It’s not difficult for Democrats and Republicans alike to list multiple reasons to hate the debt limit agreement reached over the weekend by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden. The irony, of course,…

The world is sliding into a new age of nuclear risk — in which miscalculation or accident could lead to catastrophe. The great progress the nuclear powers made in the 1990s through arms control and…

Amanda Gorman’s poem, “The Hill We Climb,” begins: When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? / The loss we carry. A sea we must wade. She made…

It seems as though the news is full of headlines about nothing but bickering at all levels of government. I don’t know about you but at times I want to send them all to their…

Dear editor, All too often I hear disparaging comments about those who work in the public sector whose tasks are to make our day-to-day lives better. One remark, in my rural area, I hear too…

When Carrie C. is released from Missouri Department of Corrections’ Chillicothe Correctional Center, she will be leaving with more than just the clothes she was wearing when she entered. She’ll be carrying a college degree.…

If it came to a vote, my guess is Allen County citizens would overwhelmingly support the county assuming responsibility for a recycling program. A county-wide program makes the most sense because it affords an economy…

We liberal Christians are used to being overlooked. I was reminded of this the other day while discussing religion and politics with an otherwise smart, worldly, well-read former student who had never heard of liberal…