Despite opposition from most of our Kansas congressional delegation, new federal dollars are coming to Kansas to expand broadband access. President Joe Biden recently signed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, fulfilling a 2020 campaign promise.…

It’s Thanksgiving season, and whatever your manner of celebration, chances are that you’ll enjoy some time off from work. If, like most of us, you’re gathering with family and friends, you might even pause to…

If we were not still in the grip of a deadly pandemic, with the seven-day average U.S. death toll from the coronavirus hovering just over 1,100 a day, I probably would not have thought of…

This Thanksgiving, what can we possibly have to be grateful for in a year marked by forest fires of unprecedented size and destructiveness in the West; a pandemic that has killed over 770,000 Americans; and…

It was the tweet seen ’round the world — or at least in the portion of the world tracking anti-vax extremism. Three people wore yellow Stars of David to a hearing about COVID-19 vaccine mandates…

This past Wednesday afternoon, we got perhaps the most disappointing answer yet to a question that I have been asking myself for most of my journalistic career. It happened as we watched the House’s dueling…

The historical special session of the Kansas legislature taking place this week will, I predict, thoroughly fulfill its true purpose, though not its official one. Being clear on the differences between the two is important…

Everything these days is political, even Thanksgiving dinner.  It’s going to be more expensive this year, Republicans complain, because of Joe Biden’s inflation. There’s certainly reason to argue that Democratic policies have contributed to higher…

At first glance, I didn’t think today’s conference on depression and teenage suicide would pertain to me.  But after a discussion with Amber Jewell, a social worker with Le Roy/Gridley schools, I realized that our…

The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Green Bay Packers last Sunday.  The opportunity opened up when the Packers’ star quarterback Aaron Rodgers could not play after testing positive for COVID-19.  Previously, Rodgers had said he…