Opinion

President Barack Obama’s administration said Thursday that a $400 million cash payment to the government of Iran seven months ago was, indeed, contingent on the release of a group of American prisoners after all. Earlier, the Obama administration had refused to acknowledge any link at all between...
After state governors have finished their terms of office, they automatically become part of a small, elite group of former leaders in the state and you rarely hear or learn about one of them knocking the current one, even if they are from different political parties. That is, until now, in Kansas...
The construction of the new Holton Elementary School for grades Pre-Kindergarten through Fifth Grade has entered its final stretch. The construction work is on schedule and everything should be ready to go on the first day of classes. An open house at the new school is tentatively planned for 2 p.m...
I now refer to CNN, the Cable TV News Network, as the Clinton News Network because the news broadcasts on that channel are so blatantly slanted to favor Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. I miss the TV news era of anchors like Walter Cronkite, who took pride in their objective news...
When the Royal Valley school board started considering what they wanted in the next school superintendent for the district recently, it was determined immediately that they wanted another one just like John Rundle. Wow. A higher compliment in the K-12 public education field does not exist. Over his...
When the death of Prince, the 57-year-old American musician and entertainer from Minnesota, was announced recently, tributes from President Obama to Sunday morning’s Meet The Press TV show started pouring down for him like a steady rain. Purple Rain, you might say if you are a Prince fan, a nod to...
It’s disappointing that a road project spanning about less than a quarter mile, that seemed to have a lot of support in the community, was so quickly scrapped by the Holton City Commission recently. A road to connect Gilliland Drive, located west of Holton Community Hospital, with the Holton...
We live in a state that is no longer collects enough tax money to operate our public schools, maintain our state highways and care for our needy. We can’t pay our bills without robbing one state department to fund another. We live in a state that no longer places a high value on educating our...

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