Opinion
When the death of Prince, the 57-year-old American musician and entertainer from Minnesota, was announced recently, tributes from President Obama to Sunday morning’s Meet The Press TV show started pouring down for him like a steady rain. Purple Rain, you might say if you are a Prince fan, a nod to...
It’s disappointing that a road project spanning about less than a quarter mile, that seemed to have a lot of support in the community, was so quickly scrapped by the Holton City Commission recently.
A road to connect Gilliland Drive, located west of Holton Community Hospital, with the Holton...
We live in a state that is no longer collects enough tax money to operate our public schools, maintain our state highways and care for our needy.
We can’t pay our bills without robbing one state department to fund another.
We live in a state that no longer places a high value on educating our...
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that a state law criminally punishing drivers who refuse a sobriety test is an unconstitutional violation of the Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizure and 14th Amendment due process rights.
In 2012, the state amended its statutues on...
We often hear from our elected state officials that they are voting for or against various measures at the Legislative Session because of comments and opinions they have heard and received from their constituents.
And that, in a nutshell, is how representative democracy works best.
When...
