Opinion
Officials at The University of Kansas at Lawrence last Wednesday ordered the removal of a piece of artwork from a public flagpole on the campus that had triggered rounds of complaints from Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer and several others seeking or holding public office in the state.
KU Chancellor...
Dennis Taylor of Topeka, 68, says his past experiences as a Shawnee County Commissioner, a Kansas Secretary of Labor and Chief of Staff for Gov. Mike Hayden have all prepared him for the office of Kansas Secretary of State that he is now seeking as a Republican candidate.
During a recent visit to...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s policy to ban travelers from five Muslim-majority countries is lawful after all, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled recently.
The 5-4 ruling comes after several lower courts had acted on their own to limit or suspend the policy, which Trump introduced in January 2017.
The...
The new Valley Falls swimming pool is averaging about 120 people a day in attendance, according to a recent report in The Vindicator newspaper there.
Last year’s attendance at the old pool was less than 50 people per day, it was reported.
Concession stand sales at the new pool are topping $100 per...
This community journalism career that started 36 years ago almost didn’t make it to the third year.
After one year as the editor of the twice-weekly Baxter Springs Citizen newspaper in the farthest southeast county of the state (Cherokee), and one year as the sports editor, news reporter and...
Wind farms are sprouting up in communities across Kansas and in some cases they have become hot-button issues.
Not so, apparently, in neighboring Nemaha County, according to a recent report in the Courier-Tribune newspaper at Seneca.
A proposed wind farm in south Nemaha County - one of Jackson...
Somebody needs to educate former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry about the Logan Act – the federal law that forbids private citizens “from engaging in unauthorized correspondence with foreign governments’’ that have “any disputes or controversies with the United States.’’
Actually, somebody...
A couple of newspaper stories published in the neighboring Valley Falls Vindicator in two of its recent weekly editions about a Jefferson County resident caused me – and probable countless others - to pause and reflect on life.
A front page story in The Vindicator recently featured local resident,...
Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has signed Senate Bill 263, which enacts the Alternative Crop Research Act, allowing the Kansas Department of Agriculture to oversee the cultivation of industrial hemp in a research program, it has been reported.
Time will tell whether this is a good thing for Kansas farmers...
The cost to keep the vacated Central school in Holton in good condition is now estimated at about $100,000, which is about twice as much as the Holton school district has been unofficially offered reportedly for the old building and grounds located about a block and half east of the Town Square....
