We like winning. The three of us have won in athletics, business and civic life.  Together, we guide the Kansas Health Foundation. We are all about winning here, too. We want Kansas to be ranked…

Susan McKinnis, English instructor at Allen Community College, did Iola proud Tuesday evening when she interviewed author Erik Larson on the Bowlus Fine Arts Center stage. For the better part of an hour, McKinnis peppered…

Gov. Laura Kelly received word constituents weren’t keen on the design of the newly unveiled license plate. But rather than take umbrage, the governor made light of the unpopular decision, saying, “I promised to be…

Robert Crimo Jr.’s guilty plea to reckless conduct for helping his son obtain authorization to own firearms three years before Robert Crimo III allegedly opened fire on Highland Park, Illinois, paradegoers should be a wake-up…

It’s time to drop the blame game about obesity and welcome the news that medications have been developed to treat it. For too long, U.S. marketers, health insurance companies and pharmaceuticals have conspired to shortchange…

Earlier this year, Mental Health America released its annual mental health rankings by state. They placed Kansas last in the nation. Let that sink in — last, out of 50 states and the District of…

I’m becoming more and more certain that Volodymyr Zelensky and I are cousins. As my father, who was born in Ukraine, often said when he uttered one of his ironclad dictums — e.g., you can’t…

We spend a lot of time focusing on what still needs correcting, because without awareness — and usually, sustained pressure — change is not even possible. But in this season in between the days we…

In 1805, when the Lewis and Clark expedition reached the border of what is now North Dakota and Montana, they found herds of American buffalo so numerous, “the whole face of the country was covered”…

While over 80% of the land area across Kansas qualifies as rural, the population of our state — which is mostly concentrated in about 10 of the state’s 105 counties — is increasingly urban, something…