Opinion
A longtime best friend, Mike McDonnell, age 67, died over the weekend at Emporia of an apparent heart attack. Although Mike had not been in great health for some time, his death was nonetheless a shocker.
We had texted each other earlier on the day he died, like we have been doing most every day...
Data centers are being built in the United States at a rapid rate and while it’s said they require a lot of electricity and water to operate, which is environmentally concerning to many people, there’s still a lot we don’t know about the health impacts on people.
With that said, the large amount of...
Should registered voters in Kansas elect justices directly to the state’s Supreme Court?
Or should the current system, involving a Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission, and the governor’s ultimate appointment, remain in place as it has since 1958?
That’s the question that Kansas voters in...
If you want to draw attention to a problem in Kansas, then do your best to make sure that problem is known to the Kansas Supreme Court.
Text message scammers are not known for their intelligence and long term planning. Case in point:
The Kansas judicial branch is now raising awareness about a new...
Is the traditional feel of college sports, based on long-term team building, gone at the top levels?
Has Division I sports simply become a money-driven semi-pro system that devalues the traditional, local school legacies?
For those who valued the amateur, school-centric traditions, the “better”...
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...
