Dear editor, On Dec. 21, 2021, the Allen County commissioners granted me time to respond to Randy Riebel’s concern about electronic voting machines. According to the Register, I rebutted his concerns. This was not accurate. …

Kansas and all of the United States teeter on the edge of a treacherous canyon. If we drop into that vast gulf, climbing out again will take years if not decades. Yet nearly half of…

The Star’s editorial board is publishing a series of voter recommendations in Kansas and Missouri in the November election. We’ve long encouraged readers to vote, and voting means making tough choices. It’s my belief that…

Dear editor, The evening of Oct. 11, a meeting was held in the Allen County Courthouse to discuss the implications of a 345 kV electrical transmission line that would traverse Allen County on its way…

The single biggest thing at stake in next month’s midterm elections has attracted only a sliver of the attention dedicated to subjects such as Dr. Oz’s dog experiments, girls’ high school sports or Hunter Biden’s…

Last week, in his first in-person TV interview since a May stroke, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate John Fetterman relied on closed-captioning technology to aid with his auditory processing problems and…

School officials aren’t short of explanations for the difficulty in finding and retaining teachers. There’s the pandemic and its long-term effects, especially among older workers who took early retirement in what’s now known as the…

The biggest issue in the 2022 election might be the fact that we haven’t moved on from the last one. We’re still living in the shadow of former President Donald Trump’s Big Lie — a…

The stock market is dipping, inflation is on the rise and there is no end in sight to the war in Ukraine. But not all the news is bad: Our planet just got a bit…

A constitutional amendment on the Kansas ballot Nov. 8 would give the Republican-controlled Legislature veto power over rules and regulations issued by the governor. Such an amendment would fundamentally shift the balance of power between…