Does anyone outside of Trump’s inner circle, including VP Mike Pence, and 50 or 52 Senate Republicans think Betsy DeVos is well-suited to be the nation’s new federal education czar?The Orange County (California) Register does,…

I read an article the other day about someone stepping on a rake, which reminded me of such an incident that left me out of sorts.For years we kept a big garden where I grew…

Tuesday night, dreams were welcome.Not the pie-in-the-sky kind, but the ones where if you just had a little help, they might come true.Tuesday’s summit was to discuss downtown Iola and the fact that it now…

To declaw or not to declaw, that is the question — in New Jersey.A bill has cleared one New Jersey legislative chamber that means to ban the practice of removing the claws of cats, or…

During 2016, 2 million of the most popular cars and trucks purchased in the United States were built in Mexico.That’s not as much of the market as it might sound. All told 17.5 million new…

Trump’s cabinet nominees, in particularly Betsy DeVos for Education, have not been without very pointed rancor and opposition when they’ve come before the U.S. Senate for confirmation. DeVos was confirmed Tuesday, with VP Mike Pence…

A proposal of Gov. Sam Brownback’s in his State of the State message was for Kansas universities to find a way for students to earn a bachelor’s degree for the bargain-basement tuition cost of $15,000.He…

The Kansas Highway Patrol came into being in 1937, with the mission of dealing statewide with traffic and highway laws. Two years later, at the insistence of then Gov. Payne Ratner, the Kansas Bureau of…

Rudy Taylor, the Caney scribe, recently wrote a light-hearted column about buying a KU Jayhawks shirt made in an Asian country. Concealed carry of firearms and their presence on Kansas campuses isn’t a bit light-hearted;…

Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer of New York is insistent that Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to fill the seat vacated by the death, a year ago this month, of Associate Judge Antonin Scalia require 60…