Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has called a special session of the state legislature, asking it to consider permanent income tax cuts that would cost the state about $700 million a year, or more.  The session…

Internationals are helping put Iola on the map. Two stories in Friday’s Register highlight those from abroad. One features Yuki Ikezaki, a Japanese soccer player at Allen Community College, The other was the recent visit…

Thomas Jefferson once wrote critically of those who “look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.” While he firmly opposed “frequent and untried…

When pro-Trump extremists converged in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, they followed precedents that had been in the works for a long time. In winter 1979, the American Agriculture Movement led a “tractorcade” from…

Third graders who attend public school in North Carolina learn about the solar system and volcanoes in science class. Fourth graders study fossils. Social studies at the second grade level teaches students about democracy. In…

The history of warfare has no precedent for what is happening right now in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. Never before has a nuclear power plant been on the front line of a major war, and indeed a…

Kansas elections have been proven accurate once again. Recounts of the state’s anti-abortion amendment vote, as well as the treasurer’s race, reaffirmed the original results. Yes, the margins changed ever so slightly, as they often…

Anthony Fauci is calling it a career. And the 81-year-old infectious disease expert — one of the most visible health officials in the federal government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak — deserves America’s heartfelt thanks.…

The results of the vote over a constitutional amendment that could have removed the right to abortion in Kansas gave rise to two common reactions: surprise (that a red state would vote in favor of…

After I heard the news of the death of Frederick Buechner, I walked over to a bookcase in my study that I visit more than any other. These shelves are filled with what seems too…