As spring gives way to summer, nature’s treasure chest awakens. Earth’s biological wealth sprouts, blooms and clamors. These contents once blanketed the landscape with a thin, life-sustaining fabric, the biosphere. But human activity has contributed…

Evergy, the state’s largest and primary electricity provider, wants to increase its rates charged to customers despite posting record profits. As part of the merger of Kansas City Power and Light and Westar Energy, Evergy…

The best thing that can be said of the 2023 session of the Kansas Legislature is that it is over. The second-best? It wasn’t quite as bad as it could’ve been. But it came close.…

Those well-steeped in our nation’s history long ago learned the inspiring story of how President George Washington delivered his stirring Gettysburg Address, a four-hour oration, in an effort to revive hope among Americans struggling during…

It’s time to start worrying about the debt ceiling. The federal government is careening toward its borrowing credit limit, beyond which the Treasury won’t be able to pay all its bills. The consequences could be…

Dear editor, We have been following the ambulance issue for Allen County. We understand the commissioners are tasked with the hospital and with funding an ambulance service to provide for Allen countians needs.  We also…

“Innocent people are dead, shot by a young man with a potent firearm, who died after an exchange of gunfire with police.” That was, word-for-word, the opening sentence of our editorial less than a month…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress civics test scores for eighth-graders for the first time have registered a decline while history scores continued their steep decline. The results for the nation’s report card are abysmal…

According to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the United States government will default on its national debt by June 1 if Congress does not act to raise the country’s $31 trillion national debt limit. Late last…

A dozen years ago I was so intrigued with Larry Manes’s flashy wardrobe that I invited myself to his and wife Nelda Cuppy’s home in Moran to learn what was behind it. She was.  Nelda…