On a recent camping trip to Kings Canyon National Park I had the opportunity to escape the light-polluted vistas of the city and look through a pair of binoculars at the stars under a dark…

It’s hard to overestimate how big a deal it is that Panasonic chose Kansas to build a new plant to manufacture lithium-ion batteries.   At a minimum, the deal means a $4 billion investment and…

Dear editor, Kansas Republicans introduced HB2746 back on March 29, 2022 to ban abortions from time of conception. The bill died in committee because abortion is currently protected in the Kansas Constitution. They listed only…

Recent mass shootings in Highland Park, Illinois; Buffalo, New York; and Uvalde, Texas, have produced the same futile debates that always follow such tragedies. Conservatives blame mental illness, and liberals blame gun access. But we…

“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” President Donald Trump tweeted in December of 2020. “Be there, will be wild!” His supporters listened. This week’s hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6,…

Four years after his son Joaquin was shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Manuel Oliver’s pain is still raw. Right or wrong, he took his personal fight to the…

A stunning 64% of Democratic voters nationwide tell pollsters that Joe Biden is not their preferred 2024 choice. One doesn’t need to be sour on Biden’s performance almost halfway through his first term or worried…

When you read this column, I’ll be on my way to Ukraine. It will be a vastly different trip than the one I took in February just prior to the Russian invasion. Only five months…

I’m a pediatrician and I own a gun. That may surprise you. I own a handgun because I grew up with guns. My dad had a shotgun mounted in his truck and he hunted and…

Dear editor, I was reading about Iola’s old electric park in which it had carnival-type rides, boats and games.  The time seems right to bring that back to Iola. We have an uptick of people…