Today is an interesting day in Kansas politics, and those who hang on occurrences in Washington, D.C., as well.Voters in the 17-county Fourth Congressional District will decide who will replace Mike Pompeo who was appointed…

Kudos to Kansas legislators and Gov. Sam Brownback.The Associated Press reported Friday first responders soon will be allowed to administer life-saving drugs that stop the effects of opioid overdoses.Abuse of such pain-killers as oxycodone and…

Well-meaning citizens sometimes get upset with law enforcement officers when they’re certain drug use and trafficking is occurring under their noses and, from all apparent outward appearances, officers are doing nothing about it.Patience is the…

One day recently, with light, misty rain falling and the wind laid, I went for a drive, stopped where an old trail cuts through a patch of timber, large enough to give me better than…

Breaking news: Iola contractor builds dozens of homes that are affordable for most wage earners.That might have been a news flash in the 1960s and later when Willard Horde was building homes on the quick…

When Allen County commissioners decided on a 2-0 vote Tuesday to give $180,000 to G&W Foods to support construction of a new grocery store on the site of the old hospital, Commissioner Jim Talkington did…

To the editorA response to Don Erbert’s recent letter. Thank You! Your comments hit the current business issues square on the head. Finally, someone else recognizes the fact that Iola’s current economic growth model isn’t…

This isn’t good, no matter how it is spun.The Kansas Department of Revenue announced Monday tax collections for March were nearly $12 million short of expectations, putting the shortfall for fiscal 2017, ending June 30,…

When Kansas legislators arrived in the Capitol today they faced a conundrum that they likely will permit to haunt them for some weeks hence.By June 30 they must:— Find money or some realignment to make…

My old Ranger shook ever so slightly as the object, with a ring of amber lights on its circular edge, cut through the dark sky and came near.I had been in Iola for a meeting…