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“Chilly out,” I said as way of a greeting.“Chilly!,” the clerk grumbled. “It isn’t chilly, it’s cold!”I had no argument. I snatched up an egg-biscuit, and high-tailed it for my car, which I’d left running…

When I was brainstorming up Humanity House, I thought I had everything figured out. I believe in myself. I believe in others. I think things through, move pretty quickly, follow plans well, and usually things…

This is a shout-out for millennials, today’s scapegoat generation.Lost productivity? This is what millennials, those age 18 to 34, hear ad infinitum: “These  young’uns just don’t know how to work.”Lagging sales? “In my day, we…

It was refreshing to hear U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran say that if Congress were to approve an overhaul of U.S. infrastructure that he would expect the country to pay for the upgrades, rather than add…

Brrr.“Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!” said our president…

This past week remodeling construction began on the new Humanity House office building at 110 East St. If we work at a breakneck pace we will be in the first phase of the office before…

On July 6, 1964, I walked into the Register office for the first time as a full-fledged employee. Sometime Tuesday I will walk out in that capacity.But, dear readers, I’m not riding off into the…

If I could choose any day, any era, to be born, it would be now.Never before have the prospects been so good to live life with “liberty and justice for all.”As a country we continue…

More Kansans registered for Obamacare this year despite the enrollment period being sliced in half and promotional and enrollment funding dramatically reduced. The robust turnout surprised both supporters and opponents of the health law. Applicants…

In the midst of all the brouhaha over Christmas — the gift buying, the dinners, visitors, travel plans, school programs, tree trimming, and more — there is a good chance there is someone that you…