Donald Jr. was a charmer Tuesday night at a fund-raiser in Kansas City for longtime acquaintance Kris Kobach, who’s vying for the 2018 Republican nomination for Kansas governor.The president’s eldest son projected warmth and familiarity…

In an effort to prove “fake news” abounds, a conservative activist group called Project Veritas attempted earlier this week to dupe the Washington Post into publishing a story about a woman who claimed Roy Moore,…

Planning has started anew for how to go about bringing schools up to snuff in USD 257.Will there be new structures, remodel and update of what we have or some combination?The district has hired a…

Now out of the sausage stage, the Senate’s version of tax reform adds $1.4 trillion over 10 years to the country’s debt through tax cuts that will predominately benefit big business and the super wealthy. …

This is the silly season for deer. Bucks are smitten by any doe within calling distance — the rut, it’s called. They are tenacious and will follow a doe to the ends of the earth,…

We had just put away the last dish from our Thanksgiving Day feast when granddaughter Olive clamored, “Now we can have the tea party!” Lesson No. 1: Never even hint of such a possibility unless…

A California activist who claims to represent the Committee to End Slavery has made a proposal to alter how public education is funded in that state.As he did unsuccessfully in 2009, the character, whom Dickens…

The statistics are daunting.Upward of 1.5 million deer-vehicle accidents occur each year in the United States, including about 15,000 in Kansas.On Nov. 12, three young women died in a horrific accident on U.S. 169 south…

The big takeaway from Thrive’s 10th annual celebration Friday night is that it is just getting started. Instead of a night commemorating milestones — and there are many — the focus was on the challenges…

This is the season when we focus on the needs of others. We look at our friends, our spouse, our co-workers, parents, neighbors and our children and think what do they need? What would make…