The first couple days of this week were intense, with plenty of reason for anger and frustration as the three biggest governmental bodies in Newton packing hot button issues into a pair of days worth of meetings.
Dear Doctors: I heard there’s finally a good answer for why people get more colds in winter than in the summer. The idea that it’s because we’re indoors more in winter never made sense because we’re indoors a lot in the summertime, too. Is there something about winter that viruses like?
We have just exited Phase 2 of the balloon incident. In Phase 1, “Discovery,” the Biden administration went into action mode on finding that a Chinese “spy” balloon had crossed over half the US.
Dear Doctors: I am 33 years old, and I’ve been diagnosed with sciatica. It’s hard to sit at my desk for my job. Sometimes the pain wakes me up at night. Could this have happened from lifting boxes when we moved? My husband says I should see a chiropractor. Is there anything else that can help?
Calving season started on our farm last week with the arrival of three babies. For roughly two months our cows and their newborn babies will be the center of all our attention.
District responding to shrinking enrollment Over the past few weeks, the USD 373 Board of Education has studied solutions for low enrollment. Projections show a continued declining enrollment trend in USD 373.
Governor Laura Kelly mentioned Kansas’ water crisis in her 2023 State of the State Address, but so far she has proposed few specific policies to alleviate the problem. Will this be the year that Kansas policymakers step up? Some 90 years ago, the state endured the catastrophic Dust Bowl from 1931 to 1939.
Hello, dear readers, and welcome to the monthly letters column. Are we too far into 2023 to wish you all a happy New Year? We’re deep into flu season, as well as lose-those-holiday-pounds season. Both are topics in your letters, and of future columns. And now, your questions.
Expanding Kan-Care Expanding Kan-Care is one of the most important issues to confront our state, and shamefully, our legislature has failed to make this happen. There are 150,000 Kansans, most of them working, without health insurance. Expanding KanCare would not only bring relief to these individuals, but it would bring a lot of revenue to our state.
Student learning took a big hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Just how much is only becoming clear nearly three years after the World Health Organization declared the pandemic and nearly all U.S. public schools pivoted to online instruction for at least several months in March 2020.