Month: November 2019

There are signs that the Florida Legislature may finally be ready to discuss the climate crisis. What we really need, however, is bipartisan action. Our state’s climate scientists and local governments have made it abundantly…

Iola’s Boy Scout Troop 55 will offer a chicken noodle dinner Sunday to raise money for outdoor and camping experiences. Dinner will be served from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Dr. John Silas…

SAN FRANCISCO (BLOOMBERG) — Managers at Google are considering changing policies on political advertising in the midst of a raging public debate on the topic, according to a person familiar with the company’s plans. Some…

Dave Lindstrom, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate representing Kansas and an ambassador for the Kansas City Chiefs, will visit Iola at 1 p.m. Saturday at the ICT Warehouse Theater, 203 S. Jefferson. Lindstrom…

  The Allen County Regional Hospital Board of Trustees will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. This is a change from the regularly scheduled meeting on the fourth Tuesday of each month, because of the Thanksgiving…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A top Republican legislator’s complaint has launched an investigation into whether the commission that screens Kansas Supreme Court applicants violated the state’s open meetings law in picking three finalists for Democratic…

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Four suburban Kansas City high school students have been charged with two Halloween night armed robberies, one of which was recorded and circulated on social media. The Kansas City Star reports…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Congressional Republicans from Kansas have rejected a request from the delegation’s lone Democrat that they join her in opposing a federal policy that allows faith-based adoption agencies to get taxpayer funding…

CHICAGO — Scientist Mary Rodgers spends her days tracking killers — elusive, constantly mutating viruses that travel the globe and are responsible for illness or death in millions of people. Wednesday, in an article published…

Dear Dr. Roach: I was diagnosed with stage 1 bladder cancer in April. My urologist advised me to have BCG therapy for it. I just completed six weeks of the therapy. I also have macular…