Since fall, Congress has twice delayed passing a budget by relying on short-term resolutions that continue funding government operations at last year’s levels. The most recent continuing resolution expires at midnight Friday. The hope was…

The most unnerving part of Saturday’s bomb scare in Hawaii is that it could have triggered a military reaction from either the United States or North Korea. As it was, military experts knew within minutes…

As to be expected, education is becoming the “black spot” in Kansas. A letter last week signed by those involved with highway construction — associations affiliated with contractors, aggregate producers, engineers, asphalt, concrete and ready…

About a year ago I asked our community to think outside of their own experience, to think about others that they saw, and to give me their thoughts. Here is what I have found, in…

Martin Luther King Day is set aside each year to celebrate the great impact of the civil rights leader, cut short by an assassin’s bullet at age 39. Slavery, in which human beings are just…

Because we are a cynical lot, the news staff at the Register wondered what Norway had done to deserve to be singled out by President Donald Trump in his Thursday rant about immigration quotas to…

Gov. Sam Brownback submitted his budget on a wing and a prayer Wednesday. The budget includes a $600 million increase in school funding — with no way to pay for it. Administrators have their fingers…

“Farm country is God’s country,” President Donald Trump told members of the American Farm Bureau at their national convention Monday afternoon in Nashville.We like to think so, but actions speak louder than words. If Mr.…

As much as Oprah Winfrey is to be respected for her success as an actress and multimedia mogul, she is not presidential material and the overnight rally for her candidacy would only indicate that Americans,…

Like it or not, public sentiment for legalizing marijuana is decidedly pro. In a Gallup poll last fall, 64 percent of Americans said marijuana should be made legal. Even among Republicans, a majority, 51 percent,…