When the news broke Monday morning that the University of Michigan football team planned to pause all of its “in-person activity” due to “presumptive” positive tests for coronavirus, the joke went around Twitter that denying…

Today we have a special guest. On the spirit phone is Samuel J. Crumbine, a Kansas doctor and public health pioneer. He campaigned against the common drinking cup, invented the flyswatter, and ordered bricks telling…

Is it selfish for Americans to oppose debt forgiveness for all former and current college students in the country? That’s the motive many on the left ascribe to opponents of proposals to cancel the $1.4…

Whether their candidates won or lost, Americans should commend election officials and volunteers for their outstanding work this year. Instead, many are calling them criminals. Day and night, critics on radio, TV and social media…

Friday was my granddaughter Olive’s last day to attend school in person until January because of COVID-19. A fourth-grader in Topeka, Olive is a good student. Even so, asking her to continue her studies at…

 Election results showed us what we’ve always known —  Kansas is a Republican state.   The much anticipated Democratic Party sweep didn’t materialize despite large scale voter turn-out. Except, that is, in the two contested…

I got the call on a Tuesday that my COVID-19 test came back positive, and my mind raced to two places: my kids and my heart. My kids because I feared they, too, were infected.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — As I chug up Capitol Hill near the end of my morning run, I pass the same bustle I’ve seen every four years at this time since we first moved to Washington…

Go away and hide, President Trump, because you botched the handling of COVID-19 except for one teensy thing, starting Operation Warp Speed to develop vaccines faster than history allows. Well, yes, the Pfizer Inc. pharmaceutical…

The big political issues in Kansas and across the country this year were the economy and the coronavirus. The two are intricately linked. And neither is easily controlled. While both are serious issues, it has…