About a dozen years ago I tried an experiment at the Register in which reporters changed beats for three months.  The sports editor went to general news. School board went to a reporter who usually…

It’s now clear Kansas lawmakers want to get out of the business of public education. As discussed at Monday night’s local school board meeting, House Bill 2741 “totally changes the landscape of education,” said Jack…

It was a close call for Parsons. More than 200 good-paying jobs were on the line. “We got complacent,” said Monte Taylor, president of Great Southern Bank in Parsons and a member of the city’s…

In the early 1990s Steve Orcutt and I took Frank Hemphill to Kansas City for dinner and a game at Royals Stadium. The occasion was a retirement party for a Humboldt High science teacher and…

If you could tailor your electorate, you could pretty much sew up the election.  That’s the essence of a case that made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court and in a unanimous vote Monday…

When I learned to drive a car with manual transmission, it wasn’t a big deal. Most cars on the road in the mid-1950s were outfitted with clutches and gears that had to be manually shifted.…

No offense to Rep. Kent Thompson, but it’s somewhat disingenuous to say you voted for the school finance bill in order to keep the schools open.  That’s because the criteria necessary includes more equitable distribution…

If anything, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-KS, is a gentleman. Last week Moran bucked his party’s stance and said Judge Merrick B. Garland, nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, should be granted an audience before…

Of the current candidates vying for their party’s presidential nomination,  three of the five are on their second, or third, marriages. Two of the five (that we know of) have had children out of wedlock.…

“A woman’s place is in the house, but not the White House,” the bumper sticker read.  My son, Tim, snapped the photo earlier this month in Kansas City.  “What century is this?” he asked rhetorically.…