Opinion
The higher ethanol blend of fuel - E15 - should be available to consumers year round.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced recently that it will use its existing authority to grant an emergency waiver to allow access to lower-cost and lower-emission E15 fuel for the summer months this...
The funeral mass for an aunt on my wife’s side of the family last Friday morning, held at St. Boniface Catholic Church at rural Scipio, Kan., located in northern Anderson County, provided us with an opportunity to return to our families’ roots for the first time in awhile. It was kind of a...
Here in Jackson County, we have a lot going for us, including lots of great businesses. Just look at all the great businesses advertising in this week’s Spring Showcase special section, and elsewhere in this edition, for example.
The population of the county is steady, actually growing a little,...
As of this year, a total of nine states have enacted permanent policies to provide universal free school meals to all K-12 students, regardless of their family’s income.
These states - Colorado, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York and Vermont - have...
Like a lot of Americans, our thoughts and prayers have been focused on Nancy Guthrie, 84-year-old mother of well-known American broadcast journalist Savannah Guthrie, since she was reportedly abducted from her Tucson, Ariz. home on Jan. 31.
At this writing, there still has been no resolution on...
Tired of reading about how one political party or the other at Congress is going to cause a federal government shutdown as a political strategy because they can’t get their way?
Join the club.
To stop the use of government shutdowns as a political strategy, U.S. citizens can focus on advocating for...
The U.S. Postal Service’s new “mail dating system’’ fixes a problem that did not exist and clearly is an attempt to cover up its slowed down delivery system.
This is the USPS’s idea of making improvements?
In the past, a postmark – shown in the top right-hand corner on a piece of mail – indicated...
My father died at age 94 last Thursday. It was a blessing to have him with us for so long.
An obituary for him is published elsewhere in this edition.
Several months ago, he fell down and fractured his lumbar vertebrae No. 5 and since then he had been in the hospital, in rehab facilities or in the...
The Holton school board is reviewing a proposed new policy for all students in the district regarding the use of cell phones and other smart devices. The new policy proposal, designed by school administrators, was presented at the school board meeting here recently.
The new proposed policy should...
It was announced on Monday of this week that the Republican-led Legislative Coordinating Council had approved a plan for the state of Kansas to spend $460,000 (about half of $1 million) next month in November to fund a four-day special legislative session.
That is a bad idea because of the timing,...
