Having slogged through weeks of unevenly administered distance learning, schools in the U.S. are preparing to shut down for the summer. Amid the stress of the pandemic, students, teachers and parents undoubtedly deserve a break.…

Dozens of members of Congress have bought and sold stocks hundreds of times throughout the coronavirus pandemic, including some trades that may have been prompted by information that came to them in the course of…

How do you catch or spread the coronavirus? Much has been said about keeping six feet away and avoiding someone’s cough or sneeze. That’s fine, but additional evidence is surfacing about how the virus is…

It is all down to one day. And we hope it is action-packed. When the state’s Legislative Coordinating Council met last Wednesday to decide how and when the state House of Representatives and Senate would…

In an effort to halt the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Linn County Health Department has asked businesses to keep track of patrons who visit their premises for the next month.  By compiling such…

Of the many shortfalls of Congress’s pushed-through-too-fast CARES Act, one has seemed particularly misguided: Denying economic assistance to people who are U.S. citizens because they’re married to someone who isn’t. Under the original $2 trillion…

There’s a crisis in our prison system. We recently learned tests of the residents in a single unit at Lansing Correctional Facility showed 75% of the 240 men tested were positive, though most show no…

A federal appeals court has issued a watershed ruling that should be viewed as both common sense and a moral imperative: The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals says children have a constitutional right to…

The Kansas Legislature will return on May 21 with final, sine die adjournment. In short, the Legislative Coordinating Council (LCC) decided to pull the plug, despite the huge public health and fiscal problems facing the…

The Register was remiss this week in not reporting the results of last Saturday’s Democratic primary. Joe Biden won, of course.  With Bernie Sanders having dropped out of the race on April 8, Biden faced…