Opinion
It would be a mistake if state lawmakers in Kansas approved “regulatory sandboxes’’ that allowed selected businesses and industries to sidestep state regulations for a certain time period.
Another way to describe “regulatory sandboxes’’ is state government giving special sweetheart deals and other...
Are you better off now financially than you were four years ago? If your answer is no, like me, then you will want to vote for change.
My vote for president is based on what I believe will improve the standard of living for me and my family.
The presidential race features former President Donald...
For about 30 years now, motorists traveling north on U.S. Highway 75 from Fourth Street in Holton, as well as those driving south on U.S. 75 from the junction of Kansas Highway 9 near Netawaka, have seen signs designating that stretch of U.S. 75 as the “Danny J. Petersen Memorial Highway.”
Those...
Paper election ballots that are counted by hand went out of style in Kansas in the early 1990s and were replaced by vote counting machines.
Now, in different parts of the country, paper election ballots that are counted by hand are starting to make a comeback.
Americans don’t want to wonder whether...
Republican and Democratic members of Congress can work together for the good of the country.
I saw it and heard it on television with my own eyes, but at first I did not believe it. The House of Representatives Oversight Committee was grilling the director of the U.S. Secret Service on Monday.
I...
Former President Donald Trump came within an inch or less of being assassinated as he spoke at an outdoors re-election campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, as a bullet fired from a would-be assassin’s rifle from a rooftop about 130 yards away grazed his right ear.
If Trump had not been...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that a president “may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts.’’
It’s a good decision on behalf of all presidents, but not for...
Last Thursday evening’s U.S. presidential political debate televised on CNN revealed what we all already knew about President Joe Biden - that’s his cognitive health is failing and that he has no business running for re-election to another four-year term of office.
Biden, a Democrat, is 81 and not...
When they tell you the best time to start preparing for your retirement years was yesterday, it’s the truth.
Social Security’s Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B - health care for retired U.S. citizens turning age 65 - is not what it is cracked up to be.
First of all, it is clear that taking care...
What is Israel, the closest ally that the U.S. has in the Middle East, to do but defend itself?
What would the U.S. do but defend itself under similar circumstances?
U.S. President Joe Biden reportedly is urging Israel not to respond to the drone and missile attacks on April 13 made by Iran.
But to...
