Why, with reserves of $5 million or so, don’t Allen County commissioners lower the county’s tax levy? They’d love to, Commissioner Tom Williams told the Register Monday, but are locked into budget authority (projected expenditures)…

Assuming the U.S. Senate confirms Sam Brownback’s nomination as ambassador at-large for religious freedom — a post he’s well-equipped to fill — dynamics of the 2018 gubernatorial race will be altered.Brownback leaving Cedar Crest will…

Sen. John McCain’s speech Tuesday afternoon before his Senate colleagues would have been more impressive had he practiced what he preached. Instead, he voted for a health care bill he had yet to read, yet…

Allen County commissioners displayed leadership Tuesday when they kept the county’s future as their goal and decided to help an area hotelier set up shop in Iola. Commissioners OK’d an investment of $167,500 to purchase…

The decision to close the Iola office of the Department for Children and Families means 1,924 clients will be expected to seek services in Chanute. That’s more than an inconvenience. A large share of those…

Misery loves company. So Gov. Sam Brownback can take solace in that New Jersey’s Chris Christie was ranked alongside him as the most unpopular governors in the country. Morning Consult, a digital media company that…

When I first became interested in baseball, along about the time the Philadelphia Athletics moved to Kansas City in 1955, if you were a serious fan you didn’t need a scorecard to know who played…

On Tuesday, three women derailed the Senate plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. They held that power because the women are Republicans who bucked their party’s leadership. All three, Shelley Capito of West Virginia,…

Of the thousands of tweets Sen. Jerry Moran received upon announcing he would vote no against the Senate’s healthcare bill, our favorite was “To quote my math teacher: ‘I don’t know how you did it,…

A disconcerting aspect of the recent confession of Donald Trump Jr. of working with Russian operatives is the seeming lack of concern by the American public.Just another “boys will be boys” escapade.That’s how inured we’ve…