Consistent with conservative wishes when it comes to K-12 education, the 2023 “A better way” legislative agenda Kansas Republicans released a few days ago leans toward support for school choice Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). Any…

I finished reading Jennifer Egan’s “The Candy House” last weekend, my first read of the new year. It was a wonderful book, featuring interlinked stories of characters who grapple with a brave new world where…

As we approach the midpoint of President Joe Biden’s first term, there is little doubt that he deserves a solid “A.” He has turned the economy around, gotten the pandemic under control, gotten inflation under…

The Biden administration has reached its halfway point, and a review of its foreign policy decisions suggests an administration touting the return of diplomacy while failing to meaningfully deliver on this tenet in many ways.…

David Jordan is the president of the Hutchinson-based United Methodist Health Ministry Fund. Food prices have risen an astronomical 12% over the past year. Many Kansans are juggling high food costs with other bills impacted…

We’re slowly starting to go green here at the Register. A couple of years ago we had electric heat and cooling pumps installed when we renovated the newsroom.  And starting this month, we’re hooked up…

A lot of people I know are weeks into what has now become an annual tradition: Dry January. The concept behind Dry January is that with the revelry of the holidays behind us and the…

It says something — and not something good — about the times we live in, as people try to stretch Damar Hamlin’s life-threatening football injury to fit their polarizing political agendas.  If you consume any…

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently called the challenge the city is facing in serving an influx of migrants a crisis created by the Republican governor of Texas. As an academic who studies and teaches refugee…

The television split screen told the story. On one side, Republicans in the House of Representatives labored through the fourth of the 15 ballots they needed during four days of gridlock to choose Rep. Kevin…