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My daughter Louise and husband Nick welcomed their second child into the world on March 4. A boy, he’s named Bruce, after Nick’s late father. On the outside he looked perfect, 10 toes and fingers,…

The trouble with talking about sensitive topics is that it makes people squirm. They’d rather not. That’s why almost the entire male leadership of India has come out against the BBC documentary “India’s Daughter,” which…

Requests made at consecutive meetings of Allen County commissioners opened the door for an improvement that would play well with the multitude of people who attend events on and near the courthouse lawn in downtown…

On April 7 local voters will decide city, school district and Allen Community College trustees races.Each election is important to the community’s future. This one might be a notch higher, particularly for those selected to…

Not long ago the spot price for WTI (West Texas Intermediate) crude oil was in the neighborhood of $100 a barrel, with crude pumped from local wells fetching in the $80-plus range because of deductions…

Kansas Democrats wiped the slate clean and elected new party leadership this weekend at their annual retreat in Topeka.The time for licking wounds is past. Last year’s disastrous election cycle proved if Democrats don’t make…

The Department of Justice finding that Ferguson, Mo., police officers violated the civil rights of black residents as a matter of course came as no surprise.Racism is alive and kicking throughout the nation, albeit not…

I knew I was in trouble when my granddaughter said, “Daddy can fix it.”I was struggling to twist open a container secure enough to withstand an F5 tornado. And no, there was no time to…

The elephant in the room for Kansas legislators is not so much making ends meet for this fiscal year, which ends June 30, but figuring out next year’s budget, which faces a $600 million deficit.“We’ll…

I take heart in the lessons of history that somehow Kansas will be able to save itself from what appears a true crisis.Yes, we are poised on the precipice of a financial — and some…