Opinion

On a cold and soggy Saturday and not feeling 100 percent, I decided to spend the day cocooned in my pajamas, snugging with my KitCat on the couch.

Since the presidency of Donald Trump, our growing preoccupation with deceptive forms of political communication can be charted in the way that terms like “Big Lie,” “election denialism,” “conspiracy theory,” disinformation,” and “propaganda” have come to dominate narratives about political discourse.Such terms point to ways that authoritarian leaders, or would-be authoritarians, attempt to sow mistrust in ourselves and our institutions so that only loyalty to the leader becomes the measure of what’s real and what isn’t.

Here’s a New Year’s Resolution for the Kansas Legislature: no more wasting our time and money on election conspiracy theories.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one already, but our state and country are in dire straits.Not the fun kind of Dire Straits either, as in the “Sultans of Swing” band led by British singer-songwriter Mark Knopfler, but the kind of dire straits bemoaned by politicians and cable news talking heads.That’s what the polling says, at least.

The highest death numbers of any country has confirmed the low level of U.S.

One of my annual routines to kick off a new year is to replace our big family calendar that is posted in our mudroom and begin filling it out.

By Rep. Ron Estes Each month I want to provide you with regular updates about what’s going on in our nation’s capital and throughout the… Login to continue reading Login…

Every spring here in Emporia, Bluestem Farm and Ranch store advertises baby chicks for sale two or three times during the spring months (maybe more—I haven’t kept an exact score).