Spectators were looking for a battle. Instead, they got hugs. The setting was the much anticipated showdown Saturday night between Coco Gauff, who at 15 is being hailed as the heir apparent to Serena Williams,…

Isolationists and ultra-conservatives thought they had scored a victory last week when President Trump initially agreed to cut U.S. foreign aid. Though the proposed $4 billion is less than one-tenth of one percent of the…

By now, most of the world has learned to take President Trump’s threats with a grain of salt. Such is the case when over the weekend the president demanded an additional 5% hike on Chinese…

Before Allen Community College trustees commit to a new recreation center, they might consider how such an effort could help strengthen the relationship between the college and its surrounding communities. After all, county property owners…

On Sunday, President Donald Trump told four Congresswomen of color to “go back” to what he assumed were their foreign countries of birth. Of the four, three were born in the United States, and the…

After a recent trip to inspect immigration detainment facilities on our southern border, Kansas Congressman Roger Marshall wondered what all the fuss is about. Yes, there’s “room for improvement,” Marshall said, but they’re no worse…

“USA! USA!” “Equal pay! Equal pay!” It was hard to distinguish the two chants Sunday afternoon as the crowd erupted in Lyon, France, where the U.S. Women’s Soccer team won the World Cup for the…

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-to-4 decision that it would rather not interfere with how states draw maps that determine the voting districts for legislative, Congressional and state board of education…

In the same breath, Sonny Perdue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, recently promised to award one contract to Kansas — as well as to Missouri. And then he told us he’d decide the winner depending on…

No doubt, most everyone welcomed the Kansas Supreme Court’s ruling Friday that state legislators have finally met their financial obligation to public K-12 schools with their  most recent boost of $90 million a year for…