“What’s this?” Brian asked, as water dripped from the corner of an ornate book. A wide, satin ribbon was wrapped round the tapestry cover. When opened, it folded out accordion-style. Inside were love letters, the…

Dear editor, This year, Kansans have the option of re-electing a Republican Senate and a Republican House that have consistently done the bidding of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, whose experiments with our money and our…

In 24 days, the presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be decided. Trump has dwelt at times on the nuclear alternative and as president he would have access to the nuclear football,…

Rep. Lynn Jenkins, Kansas congresswoman, continues to pledge her support for fellow Republican Donald Trump  while at the same time calls him despic-able.  In a CBS News poll released Tuesday, Jenkins is quoted as saying,…

The contrast is startling.Hate crimes on the bucolic campus of Bethany College, the gem of Lindsborg. Scrawled on a campus sidewalk were a dozen racist messages, including “Make Lindsborg white again,” and another of the…

Anyone who says he has a high threshold for pain never got his toe caught between chain and sprocket on a bicycle. In the early 1950s I got a new bike for Christmas, a shiny…

Donald Trump became a household name when his reality TV show “The Apprentice” debuted in 2004. The program depicted Trump taking perverse delight in telling people they were fired. Unfortunately it wasn’t an act.  What…

The biggest criticism of politicians today is that they don’t represent voter interest in part because they are beholden to the pocketbooks of special interests. Over his political career, Gov. Sam Brownback has received almost…

“The universal similarity — that is the expression of the philosophy of a dull safety,” Sinclair Lewis wrote a century ago in “Main Street,” focusing on ethnic racism and cultural divides in an early 1900s…

We don’t have to elect Donald Trump to know his supply-side economics plan won’t work. All the country has to do is look to Kansas to see how badly the model fares.Trump bases his economic…