Dismal 2023 numbers in the Kansas housing market need context. They should also spur action.  To begin, this year’s 18 percent drop in sales is compared to the unrealistic benchmark of 2022, when federal stimulus…

Dear editor, With the Kansas Legislature’s 2024 session set to begin in two weeks, I encourage readers to ask our state lawmakers and governor’s office to reinstate Local Ad Valorem Tax Reduction (LAVTR) Fund payments…

The current narrative about the war in Ukraine is that Russia has regained the offensive and is making gains in the east. But that’s not how it looked Tuesday on the bridge of the Novocherkassk,…

Some residual good news for courage in 2023: Alexei Navalny is alive and has been located in a distant prison colony. His team says the leading opponent of Vladimir Putin’s despotism was moved without announcement…

Fred Hiatt, the Washington Post’s longtime editorial page editor, made human rights his journalistic passion. News of authoritarian abuses and atrocities seemed to affect him personally. You could see how much he cared in the…

I’ve missed only one Christmas with some sort of family.  Even today I can remember the pangs of loneliness while trying to steel myself with a cavalier attitude. I was 20 and attending school in…

In this space we do the talking, about what the Daily News deems important and worthy. But today we are giving a good chunk of our space to Secretary of State Tony Blinken. America’s top…

The Senate skipped town for the holidays without a deal to aid Ukraine and bolster border security, but Members claim they can regroup and pass something in the New Year. Let’s hope they do, because…

One of the great themes of the Christmas season is surprise. Every child excited for Christmas morning understands it: the sense of wonder that comes along with an unexpected gift. From a Savior born in…

2023 was the year of the economic woman. Will it last? You get to decide.  I was born in 1976. My mother was 26 years old and recently married. The Vietnam War was over. Fat…