I so wish my mother were alive today. She would be proudly sporting a bright gold shirt with No. 22 emblazoned across her chest, and we would be sitting side by side at every possible…

Well, Kansas sure picked a heck of a year to bring back presidential primary elections.  On the Republican side, former President Donald Trump has already steamrolled pretty much all comers, and former South Carolina governor…

I’ve been following the fate of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph over the past weeks.  The 168-year-old publication is at a crossroads. Its owners, the billionaire Barclay family, agreed to sell the newspaper to…

At some point in our lives we all have the urge to rewrite history. “The dog ate it,” revision starts early. And if not tempered by a healthy conscience can get dangerously out of hand.…

Kansas has some of the most permissive gun laws in the country, and last week the state house began debate on a bill that, if passed, would put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to…

In the months after Hamas committed the worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, conflict has spread across the Middle East. In all, 10 countries are now caught up in fighting. In Gaza Israeli soldiers…

What appeared to be a simple boy-meets-girl scenario has devolved into a twisted plot worthy of John Grisham. According to the still-developing story, mega-pop star Taylor Swift has a side gig working for the Pentagon…

The theft of the Jackie Robinson statue from the League 42 baseball fields brought to my mind one of the most embarrassing mistakes I ever made as a journalist.  I was the 24-year-old editor of…

In a recent interview on the CNN podcast “The Axe Files,” crime writer Sara Paretsky talked about the antisemitism she faced growing up in a Jewish family in Kansas in the 1950s — antisemitism that…

Kansas Speaker of the House Dan Hawkins, R-Wichita, says there aren’t enough votes to expand Medicaid in Kansas and so he won’t put it to a floor vote. “I know my votes,” Hawkins told reporters…