The other day someone sent me the searchable database published by Atlantic magazine of more than 191,000 e-books that have been used to train the generative AI systems being developed by Meta, Bloomberg and others.…

With early voting now available, it’s important to vote to ensure your voice is heard on matters affecting our communities. Southeast Kansas consistently ranks low in voter turnout, but ranks highest in the state for…

Aristotle is said to have referred to the female as a mutilated male, and this philosophy seems to have carried forward into much more modern times. In 1977, official FDA guidelines recommended that women of…

The lack of security was the predominant theme at Tuesday’s forum concerning the  $9.95 million bond issue to expand and renovate a section of the Allen County Courthouse. After 22 years of being warned the…

A long time ago, when my children were little, I found out our babysitter, a low-income woman with a child of her own, had been taking them to the local park, where they all got…

Last week, a bipartisan commission of former state lawmakers finished working on and recommended a solution to a long-standing problem: Kansas’s terrible legislative pay scale. Currently our state legislature, which is officially supposed to meet…

The road to renewal in Kansas runs through a single political party: the Republican one. While Democrats have a traditionally wide-ranging coalition — all the way from free-market capitalists to democratic socialists and beyond —…

Earlier this year, I shared with Kansans that I had been diagnosed with breast cancer. I also shared that I expected to make a full recovery. Following surgery and several radiation treatments, I am thrilled…

Oftentimes, it takes getting away to get a closer perspective of home. Or yourself. Such is the case with a trip my husband, Brian, and I recently took to Ireland with local friends Nancy and…

Take a guess: How much Kansas land does China own?  It’s probably not a lot — you probably would have heard something about it if so — but it can’t be nothing, right? American right-wingers…