Though it comes as no surprise, the ruling Tuesday that Kansas schools are inadequately funded will have many state lawmakers acting with outrage and alarm.The lawsuit, Gannon v. State of Kansas, in fact has been…

The natural reaction to news of across-the-board state budget cuts is for us all to cinch in our belts.That, of course, is opposite to what Gov. Sam Brownback wants. Rather, he urges us to embrace…

Here are statistics that shouldn’t surprised anyone in Allen County.According to a study by the Corporation for National and Community Service and the National Conference on Citizenship, Kansas ranks fourth among the 50 states and…

Sometime in the next few days a good many folks will put together lists of resolutions for the new year.I’ve never formally jotted down any, but hardly a year goes by that thoughts of what…

Clyde Toland, a life-long student of local history, took exception to last Saturday’s report of Gen. Fred Funston’s alleged dark side activities in the Philippines in the early 1900s. Toland wrote: “I was not previously…

Jeb Bush would be a strong presidential Republican candidate for 2016.As the former governor of Florida he knows the constraints of a budget, he has a strong base of support, a familial tie to the…

In their campaign to “spread pain and destabilize the country,” radical Islamists opened indiscriminate fire Tuesday morning in a Pakistan school, killing 145, many of them students, and wounding, some critically, many more.The siege —…

In today’s news the University of Kansas boasts fundraising efforts reached its goal of $1.2 billion. The monies will go primarily to fund scholarships for incoming students. Increasingly, colleges are having to tap private donors…

“I could taste the tear gas from my house,” said Kenya Vaughn, an editor with the St. Louis American, an alternative newspaper.News of the Ferguson, Mo., riots after the shooting of Michael Brown on Aug.…

We knew the hurt would be bad. That everyone would feel the pinch. But perhaps not to the extent that some programs — including the state’s pension fund — are put in peril.Such will be…