A confusing time of year
We’re wrapping up this year’s budget season, a time of year where numbers fly during local governmental meetings that some find hard to grasp and… Login to continue reading Login…
Opinion
Words we say and don’t say can make all the difference in understanding fellow Kansans’ lives
By: Tara Wallace I learned something last week. Words matter. A lot. Not just the words we say. The words we don’t say, won’t say… Login to continue reading Login…
War crime and other redundancies
by Tom H. Hastings “Show me anything in war that is moral.” –Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris, commander of the British Air Force in World War… Login to continue reading Login…
A bigger bucket list
Glenn Brunkow, Pottawatomie County farmer and rancher I admit going to Africa was never on my “bucket list”. Earlier this year I was offered the… Login to continue reading Login…
Working to prevent a Marion County incident
It was a funny moment, one that was repeated a couple of times on August 22. Deputy Chief Scott Powell got that twinkle in his… Login to continue reading Login…
Rural hospitals at-risk of closing threaten women’s lives, Medicaid expansion would help
Alexandra Middlewood In a report published earlier this month by the Kansas Maternal Mortality Review Committee (KMMRC), the state’s maternal outcomes have worsened in recent… Login to continue reading Login…
Sad chapter in Kansas history was written as Ku Klux Klan rose again during 1920s
By: Mike Durall In the early 1920s, it is estimated the Ku Klux Klan had more than 60,000 members in Kansas. In September 1924, the… Login to continue reading Login…
Plains Folk: Voice of the buffalo range
by Tom Isern Cowboy songs, homesteader songs, these are commonplace in the settler society of the Great Plains. To my knowledge, however, there are… Login to continue reading Login…
In BriefBOE to meet
The Newton USD 373 Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. Aug. 28 in the meeting room of McKinley Adminstrative Center, 308 E. First.… Login to continue reading Login…
Royals unveil proposed ballpark and entertainment district plans for 2 locations
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals unveiled plans for two dramatically different locations for a replacement to the aging Kauffman Stadium on… Login to continue reading Login…