Editorials

Baseball is a game of milestones. Babe Ruth’s 714 career home runs, and Hank Aaron eclipsing Ruth with 755 round-trippers. Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in 1947. Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2,632 consecutive games. And,…

The most recent election brought Sen. Anthony Hensley’s tenure in the Kansas Statehouse to an end. Hensley was the state’s longest-serving legislator and the Kansas Senate’s minority leader. Rick Kloos, founder of nonprofit God’s Storehouse,…

Even in an election year where standards of fair play seem to plummet with each passing day, last Monday’s attack by Georgia’s U.S. senators marked a new low. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue called…

On Sunday, President Donald Trump almost conceded that Joe Biden is President-elect when he tweeted “He won.” Trouble is, he followed those two words with more accusations that the election was rigged. That the final…

Kansas has reached another grim marker in its ongoing battle with COVID-19. After residents became fatigued with the ongoing toll of the virus, they ventured outside more and more, congregated with friends and families, and…

More than half a million Kansans voted for Joe Biden for president.  In the end, not one counted. That’s because Kansas uses the winner-take-all formula to decide how to cast its electoral college votes that…

A Joe Biden presidency augurs well for eventually controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, but Americans can’t afford to wait until Biden takes office on Jan. 20 for federal help. More than two months have passed since…

U.S. troops used to return from foreign wars to ticker-tape parades and joyous celebrations. That’s how it was in November 1918, when much of the world cheered the end of World War I. One year…

On Monday, Sen. Mitch McConnell celebrated voters endorsing Senate Republicans. In the same breath, he questioned the validity of their ballots if they did not also endorse President Donald Trump. You’re right. It doesn’t make…

Joe Biden has been elected to be the next president of the United States. Now he’ll have to get creative. When the president-elect takes office, he’ll confront the country’s two most acute challenges: an ongoing…