A pleasant summer evening 30 years ago in Riverside Park remains vivid even today.I was there to coach son Bob and others on the Register’s PeeWee League team, whiling away time until the first game…

Allen County commissioners will decide soon what to do about concealed carry of firearms in the courthouse, along with Iola and other cities’ governing bodies.An option is a plan outlining how they intend to prevent…

If Colorado could go back in time, it would pick 1992 as the year to do over.That’s when voters approved TABOR, the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, which has effectively strangled the state’s ability to adequately…

Dear editor,Would someone please explain to me why we need guns in our voting places. Isn’t it bad enough we are slaughtering children in their school seats and men, women and children in theaters and…

In all the debate over whether to cut food stamp subsidies, the strongest argument is whether the majority of Americans are being paid a living wage and can be self-sufficient.In general, subsidies are determined by…

 Still on the table before the House Appropriations Committee is a bill to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Humanities by almost half. If it were realized, it essentially would eliminate the Kansas…

Gov. Brownback has an odd view of what success is.Last week’s news of another month of low tax receipts was termed as good news by Brownback, and more evidence that his tax cuts “are working.”He’s…

Fiction: Governor says he’s increased money to schools, teachers It should be good news.The state’s enrollment for K-12 students is up by 1 percent, totalling nearly 460,000 students, and follows a trend of annual increases…

Small town America seems to be making headlines these days.The Oct. 24 issue of the Wall Street Journal highlighted Tribune, Kan., a town of 1,298 poised on the precipice of extinction. Several things helped turn…

A new study says workers 50 and older enjoy their jobs more than their younger counterparts.Called the “silver tsunami,” these baby boomers who in other times would have retirement on the horizon are now still…