December 2023

“A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days,” the Associated Press reports, as “part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities.”For years, I’ve been of two minds about the movement to remove these memorials.On one hand, I generally object to the idea of “government property” being used for such purposes.

It was the range scientist David Engle, of Oklahoma State University, who coined the term “green glacier” to describe the environmental threat of red cedar on the central plains.

You can’t always get what you want in life, politics or license plates.That’s the tough lesson for Kansans after voting concluded on a new batch of designs for our state’s next plate.