With Kansas legislators feeling increasingly pressured to legalize marijuana for either medicinal or recreational use, its potential economic impact should come a distant second to its potential risks to our health. According to health experts, today’s…

Compromise, common sense and listening to all sides of an issue don’t seem like countercultural values. Certainly, in the home I grew up in they weren’t. My parents belonged to separate political parties, and those…

Dear Dr. Roach: My family members drink mega amounts of diet pop, including the kids, ranging from age 3 to age 10. All the adults have serious weight problems. They say they have to drink…

“We will have so much winning if I get elected that you may get bored with the winning,” then-candidate Donald Trump declared at a campaign event in September 2015. It was a line that Trump…

Hi Carolyn: When my ex-husband and I divorced about eight years ago, he left town and I got full custody of our daughter, “Jane,” and remained great friends with his family (from whom he is…

The news that Sen. Pat Roberts will not seek re-election has got political pundits already positing viable candidates for the 2020 election. After all, it’s only 660 days away, give or take. For Republicans, the…

Committees working toward passage of a bond issue to build a new elementary school for USD 257 will be formed tonight beginning at 6 o’clock in the assembly room of the basement of the Allen…

After more than 100 years of standing guard over the graves of Civil War veterans, “Ol’ Zachary” may be ready to retire. Ol’ Zachary is the nickname locals gave the statue of a Union infantry…

WASHINGTON — I watched from the House gallery Thursday afternoon when the Democrats’ socialist sensation, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in suffragist white, rose to announce her vote for speaker. “Nancy Pelosi,” the 29-year-old firebrand declared. From…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran says he wants the shutdown to come to end, saying it will soon start to affect farmers and aircraft manufacturers. The Wichita Eagle reports that Moran said…