Patrick R. Miller Voters in neighboring Missouri just legalized recreational marijuana. Meanwhile, Kansas remains in the minority of states where neither medical nor recreational marijuana are allowed.
Each month I want to provide you with regular updates about what’s going on in our nation’s capital and throughout the 4th District of Kansas. Here’s what happened in November.
Dear attorney general-elect Kris Kobach: Congratulations on your election as our state’s next attorney general. I write this open letter in my capacity as the president of the Kansas Coalition for Open Government.
Whitewashing our past helps none and harms all I believed an educational entity charged with ensuring safety and inclusion of children would not condone celebrating a racist. Once Frank Lindley’s racist past was explained to Newton’s BOE they would remove that offense to Newton’s educational system.
If you’re a regular reader of Plains Folk, it’s likely we share certain values. One of these is that life is not a purely transactional matter. There are important things that are not reducible to calculation and exchange. On the other hand, you have to make a living.
ASK THE DOCTORS by Eve Glazier, M.D., and Elizabeth Ko, M.D. Dear Doctors: I am 84 years old and just got a new doctor.
I see that our city commission is planning to approve a pricing increase to our city utilities. The city has already stopped providing recycling: the city retrieved one of my trash containers and did not reduce my monthly fee now that I’m only getting one container emptied each week...I actually only need it emptied once a month, but this city does not offer the option for once-a-month service.
Clara Hatton is “arguably the most important forgotten Kansas artist of the 20th century,” and if you doubt it, Bill North is out to change your mind. The daughter of Russell County farmers, Hatton was educated in Kansas, Michigan and England in ceramics, bookbinding, calligraphy and letterpress, engraving, weaving, and jewelry making.
Dear Doctors: I’m a 33-year-old woman in good health. The problem is that I got into some bad habits during the pandemic and gained weight. I’m back on track with diet, and now I am adding exercise. I remember reading that the time of day that women exercise makes a difference. Is that true?
Earlier this year, Beth Wynstra and Mary Pinard — professors at Babson College in Boston — were invited to write and direct a play at The Volland Store in Alma. “Heart/Roots: Wabaunsee County” premiered in June 2022, the first-of-itskind performance in The Volland Store’s renovated “Theatre at the Ruin” outdoor space on the grounds of the Store.