Lange to lead Wildcat football team
MOUNDRIDGE — Longtime assistant coach Bret Lange will take the helm of the Moundridge High School football team. A Fort Hays State assistant, Lange has been a coach at Moundridge for 20 years.
August 2022
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Sports briefs
GOLF Wedgewood Senior Men 1. RogerBratland, Bill Wilson, Jerry Schmidt, Jose Ramos -5.
Elaborate lies can’t be dismissed
Elaborate lies spread through Kansas, U.S., can’t be dismissed as ‘conspiracy theories’ Journalists have a problem with “conspiracy theories.” I put the phrase in quotes because writers, editors and headline writers have a problem with those consecutive words — “conspiracy theories” — in their writing. It’s not because they are being duped into believing farcical truths about the world.
Kansas: What it Looks Like When the “Center” Wins
On August 2, voters in Kansas rejected an amendment to the state constitution which would have increased the legislature’s power to regulate (or ban) abortion. Pro-choice groups hailed the outcome as evidence that abortion rights are a “winning issue” this year; partisan Democrats have reason to look more hopefully toward their chances of holding on to majorities in the US Senate, and maybe even the House of Representatives, this November. More interesting, I think, is what the result tells us about where the “moderate center” is in American politics. Letting people vote on one specific issue often produces very different outcomes from letting people vote on “representatives” based on the candidates’ baskets of multiple issues.
A trip to the archives provides salve for the soul
I’ve had my eye on the date Aug. 22, 2022, for a long time.
After Earth
7:30 p.m. on SYFY Though it flamed out fast at the 2013 summer box office, this scifi tale directed and co-written by M.
August 13 – 19, 2022
Spies in Disguise 7 p.m. on DISN Will Smith and Tom Holland both earned rave reviews for their voice work in the lead roles of this 2019 computer-animated spy comedy co-helmed by Troy Quane and Nick Bruno.
TUESDAY BEST BETS
Leonardo 7 p.m. on KSCW Aidan Turner (“Poldark”) and Freddie Highmore (“The Good Doctor”) head the large international cast of this historical drama about the life of visionary painter, sculptor and inventor Leonardo da Vinci.
WEDNESDAY BEST BETS
MasterChef 7 p.m. on KSAS The top 12 chefs are challenged to a tag-team cook-off as they approach the halfway point in the competition.
MONDAY BEST BETS
Better Call Saul 8 p.m., 9:38 p.m. on AMC “Breaking Bad,” the 2008-13 drama that inspired “Better Call Saul,” is in the Guinness World Records as the most critically acclaimed TV show of all time, so series creator Vince Gilligan borrowed a page from his original playbook when he created this spinoff/prequel.