Voters in Northeast Kansas will soon decide the shape of the Kansas State Board of Education for the next two years. Candidates chosen by statewide primaries in August have set the stage for a general election that may alter the way KSDE has operated for, at least, the past 10 years and impact all Kansas schools.
This election season, Governor Laura Kelly and her allies have relentlessly worked to tie her opponent Derek Schmidt to former Governor Sam Brownback, particularly the unpopular cuts to education funding. Yet far more can be gleaned about Schmidt’s character from his relationship with Kris Kobach.
Credit card competition act Congress must pass Sen. Marshall’s Credit Card Competition Act.
A lot of ballads originated somewhere on the plains, notably Kansas, and traveled south to become identified in the public mind with Texas. “The Cowboy’s Lament,” for instance, and “Home on the Range.” In 1912, however, a Texas folksong somehow made its way to Kansas. In the Udall Times of 6 September 1912 there appeared four stanzas, eight lines each, of the song, “Hell in Texas.” It’s a mystery just how it got to Kansas. A dry goods storekeeper from Mulvane, Charles F. Drennon, gave it to the Udall editor for publication.
Dear Doctors: I’m a 72-year-old man, and I was supposed to get a colonoscopy last year. I was surprised when my insurance company sent me an at-home kit to do a colon cancer screening. It was a lot easier than a colonoscopy, but my question is, can it be accurate?
I recently had to fire up the furnace for the first time this season. As painful as it was to switch the thermostat from the off position to heat, Mother Nature forced my hand with a hard freeze about two weeks early. In my mind there’s nothing better than waking up in a chilly house. On the flip side, there’s nothing worse than being awoken by a freezing house.
This week we attended the final “informational session” for the Newton USD 373 bond issue - a bond issue for which voting has already begun. To be clear, more than 2,000 advance-by-mail ballots have already been mailed by the county clerk’s office for the Nov.
Buyer’s Remorse? How many of you think that this country is better of now than it was two years ago? I think that some of you may have ‘buyer’s remorse’ (voter’s). It has worked reasonably well for over 200 years, so why try to ‘reinvent the wheel’? Washington said that our country is based on religion and morality.
Dear Doctors: Why is ditching junk food so hard? I know I should have an apple instead of a doughnut, but when I crave a snack, I don’t reach for the fruit bowl. Making and then breaking the promise to eat healthy makes me feel like a failure. How can a junk food addict like me get back on track?