Month: July 2019
70 Years Ago July 1949 TOPEKA (AP) Liquor will go on sale legally in Kansas this week. It will mark the end of an era of colorful crusading and multimillion-dollar bootlegging business in this…
The news that a Kansas legislator is resigning mid-term for health reasons presents a good opportunity to think about the process that Kansas uses to fill legislative vacancies. This is probably not an enthralling topic…
Oh, for the good old days, when crowds at Trump campaign events merely chanted calls for the imprisonment of a political adversary. Send her back! invokes the kind of rallies you really dont want to…
Derek Bycroft led the AA Iola Indians past Rose Hill in Iolas American Legion zone championship game. The Indians are through to state for the eighth time in the last nine years. The Indians rode…
Rep. Susan Davis. D-Calif., is right to spotlight the sad fact that low-paid members of the military struggle to buy food for their families in areas where shelter is expensive. The housing allowances these families…
CLEVELAND Royals rookie outfielder Bubba Starling had nothing to work off of, other than a scouting report. Cleveland Indians closer Brad Hands entry into the game typically serves as the signal to drive home…
PORTRUSH, Ireland (AP) No longer in the shadows of Irish golf, Shane Lowry now has his name etched on the base of the silver claret jug. Its on there with more than a centurys…
TOKYO (AP) A cart-like robot scuttles across the field to bring back javelins and discuses. A towering screen-on-wheels is designed for virtual attendance. The cute ones are, naturally, the likeness of the Olympic and…
For 45 years Craig Mentzer has been farming his land in Geneva, an unincorporated town in northwestern Allen County. Hes endured floods, hes weathered several droughts, but with 2019 just past the halfway mark he…
Gene Meiwes can?t help but keep a sunny disposition, regardless of the weather. When one of the wettest springs in recent memory threatened to derail much of the farm work for scores of area producers,…
