Not too long ago I had the privilege of representing Kansas Farm Bureau at the American Farm Bureau Federation Convention in San Antonio. For any of you who have never attended an annual meeting, it would be my hope that someday you might get that opportunity. If you do you should jump on it as fast as you can.
The first time I heard a Bob Dylan song was at Washington Elementary School in Baxter Springs, where in the auditorium a young music teacher led our class in singing “Blowin’ in the Wind.” I couldn’t have been more than 7 or 8 at the time, but I remember thinking so hard about the words and what they meant that I slipped into a kind of reverie.
As I write, the Kansas House Committee on Judiciary is about to hear HB 2348, which would eliminate tenure at higher education institutions governed by the State of Kansas. The bill emerged from a legal dispute between certain faculty members and administrators at Emporia State, yet its consequences would reverberate far beyond that.
We are in a collective grief process. The old normal passed away. We are not getting it back, at least not anytime soon. And so, the destabilization we are feeling right now is two-fold. First, the destabilization that we feel from the flooding of the zone, which is by design, and part of a playbook we knew was coming. They told us. But what we did not expect was another destabilization—that is, the destabilization that comes with grief.
A few weeks ago, the state of Kansas sent me a list of the personalized license plates — 14,567 of them — approved in 2024.
NMC Health announced this week the first recipient of an award from a new foundation.
For months a debate in Halstead has been waging — whether or not an electrical storage facility, a B.E.S.S., should be constructed in the city industrial park.
Not even a hurricane could stop Cindy Edgerton Klopfer from celebrating with her old college teammates last fall, after all the Newton High School grad and her Emporia State team were being inducted into a hall of fame.
Kairos Outside will host a fundraising Soup supper and dessert silent auction from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 22 at Newton Christian Church, 210 Southport Drive.
TOPEKA — The Kansas banking commissioner wants the Legislature to repeal a 2021 law creating a unique state-chartered financial institution that has repeatedly pleaded with lawmakers for greater operational independence and less regulatory oversight.