On the eve of the Australian Open, tennis great Novak Djokovic wants permission to play even though he has not been vaccinated against COVID-19. The defending champion says he deserves a medical exemption to the…

The Kansas Legislature begins its 2022 session today.  We’re hopeful this session will be productive and fruitful for the people of Kansas. The Legislature has the potential to do great things if its members choose…

A sickened New York mourns the deaths of at least 19 Bronxites, including nine children, from an apartment fire that poured smoke throughout a Fordham Heights high-rise. While the city digests the magnitude of the…

The responses to a recent article about Allen County’s lack of affordable housing have been pretty pointed.  Low wages. High rents. Few dining or entertainment options. High taxes.  “Why would anyone want to live there?”…

President Joe Biden on Thursday gave probably the most forceful and assertive speech of his long political life. Gone was the pleading, folksy, queasy tone that usually permeates his public remarks. Instead, he went hard…

The executive board of SPARK, a Kansas committee of appointed leaders proposed late last month to divvy up some $150 million of Kansas federal COVID relief funding. For K-12 schools, $4 million was proposed for…

There are many ways to describe what happened in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. It was an insurrection, a riot, an attempt to violently overthrow the results of a legitimate presidential election. It was…

It’s been one year since the biggest vaccination drive in American history began and offered some hope for what had been a gloomy and somber 2020. There was genuine excitement for the vaccines back then.…

What does it mean to practice humanity in medicine? The phrase is used as a tagline and in book titles. Humanity and compassion in medicine is touted as something to aspire to, a noble accomplishment.…

The long-awaited state housing and marketing report brought some pretty dismal news for Southeast Kansas.  It takes two incomes to afford a house here — if you can find one. Our housing stock is old…