How many legs does a Hottentot have, was a question on an assessment test I took in high school. Multiple choice, I had my pick of two, four, six or eight. Sometime before I’d read…

A knee-jerk reaction to horror is to pull in. Cocoon.  Which is exactly what the terrorists who set off bombs in Brussels Tuesday want the world to do. Instead, we must stand firm in denouncing…

Dear editor, We thank the Iola Register for reporting Carl Slaugh’s comments regarding methods of economic development in Saturday’s paper. We believe all three strategies are accurate and they have been used by Iola Industries,…

It’s nice we can be of help. In his testimony before a state committee on taxation, conservative economist Scott Drenkard said he uses Kansas as an example of what not to do.  In fact, Kansas…

I ask myself about this time of the year why, Bob, have you put off the inevitable? The inevitable is pulling together information so Duane McCammon, as he has for decades, can complete my state…

Dear editor, Since I moved from Chanute in the year 2000, I have seen several businesses move out: KFC, Burger King, Ken’s Pizza, Country Mart and an Italian restaurant.  What else will we see close…

Oh, but do we need another gold-shovel moment. Remember the day — the smiles — when we broke ground on the new hospital? This was the lead in the May 8, 2012 Register: “The morning’s…

In 2011 — after local voters twice rejected smaller governing bodies — Iolans tapped eight local residents to serve on the first city council in more than a century. But even with the new governing…

This afternoon, Rep. Kent Thompson, R-LaHarpe, will consider drastic cuts to public libraries that would likely force the closings of libraries in Humboldt, Moran and Savonburg and reduce Iola’s public library to little more than…

Granddaughter Emma gave me a stare and then swallowed hard as she tried to fathom the import when I mentioned her great-great-grandmother married when she was 13. Emma is 14. Without saying so, I knew…