Deep in the heart of Texas, 50,000 students at the University of Texas, as well as faculty and administrators, are irked by what state legislators have done. The legislators think anyone walking onto the campus…

It’s been a tremendous blessing that the management of the Bowlus Fine Arts Center was entrusted to the local school district as stipulated by the will of benefactor Thomas H. Bowlus in 1961. True, it’s…

Sid Fleming, Iola’s new city administrator, is giving us all the chance to start with a clean slate.So before you unload on him your version of Iola affairs, take a minute and please, refrain. Don’t…

“I get my photo in the newspaper too much,” Donna Houser lightheartedly lamented this week, after a photo Monday showed her leading a tour of improvements at the football complex in Riverside Park.  If anything,…

Last month Roger Ailes was ousted as chairman of Fox News because of allegations of sexual harassment from more than 20 women.Instead of crawling under a rock, Ailes is now prepping Donald Trump for the…

If you want change, you have to try something new. So by all accounts, Gov. Sam Brownback is hunky-dory with the state of affairs in Kansas because he sees no reason to change his course.…

There’s a phenomenon among youth today that sociologists refer to as “glow kids,” and it’s not because they are happy. The term refers to youth who are exposed to too much screen time. You can’t…

In 1972 during a happenstance conversation, Martha Mitchell told Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward she thought presidents should be elected for seven years with no chance for a second term. Her rationale was presidents then…

Dear editor, Your editorial in the Aug. 13 Iola Register concerning the Confederate flag seems to indicate that either, (A) you were asleep or cutting classes during the Civil War lectures in American History, or…

On the ballot for the Nov. 8 general election will be the name of Chris Johnston, a Democrat from rural Ottawa who earlier this year had filed to run for the state Senate, representing our…