Opinion
When our state or national elected officials announce they are coming to our towns to visit with their local constituents, it’s been a tradition for more than 44 years anyway that public meetings are planned and everyone is invited.
That was not the case, however, when on March 17 U.S. Sen. Roger...
When you think of wild fires, you might think they only occur out there on the rolling hills of the prairie.
Think again. Wild fires can reach into towns, too.
On March 14, a wild fire, fueled by extremely high winds, swept across several acres of land near the south edge of Yates Center in...
President Donald Trump has announced a common sense policy regarding reciprocal tariffs that would tax imports from other countries at the same rate they tax imports from the U.S.
President Trump says that without reciprocal tariffs the “playing field is tilted against U.S. companies.’’
Trump is...
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...
