Gregg Marshall has been exceedingly successful as coach of the Wichita State basketball team, although the Shockers were jettisoned from the NCAA championship tournament on Sunday by Kentucky. Marshall is known as a tough and…

In the last few weeks about 200 residents have gathered, first in Iola and then in Humboldt, to devise ways to perk up local economies.  Focus of the two summits have been downtowns in Allen…

Perhaps you’ve noticed fiber optic cable being laid along U.S. 169. The cable permits information to travel faster from point A to point B than more conventional means. The material is a flexible transparent fiber…

Financial advisers tell clients to plan ahead, avoid maxing out credit card debt and make adjustments if projections don’t pan out. That’s also good advice for Kansas legislators, particularly those who have accepted, finally, that…

Steve Fitzgerald, a Kansas senator from Leavenworth, should have his mouth washed out with soap. On Monday he parroted the Trump and ultra-conservative line about Planned Parenthood, only in crude terms. “Planned Parenthood (is) worse…

Education is a means for youngsters to acquire knowledge and skills necessary so they may become contributive members of society. For some, that means preparing for the work-a-day world during elementary and secondary school years.…

A niche market today is small houses, ones big enough to accommodate a person or two provided they don’t have even a fraction of the “stuff” I have tucked away at home. Some have a…

If you’ve ever thought that Iola has a preponderance of bright yellow forsythia bushes, you may be right.  In 1957, a campaign to make Iola the Forsythia City of southeastern Kansas was launched by the…

A persistent rumor is Sam Brownback will give up most of the last two years of his second term as governor in favor of a minor ambassadorial position in Rome. Brownback hasn’t confirmed he will…

Josh Jackson, the No. 1 high school basketball recruit in the nation last year, may not have taken his mother’s lessons to heart after deciding to spend a year playing for the KU Jayhawks before…