Dear editor, From every dark cloud has a silver lining. Climate warming has permitted archaeologists plying the Yukon, where ice shelves and glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates, to find important artifacts left by paleo…

Amid the chaos of 2020, I reached a point when I needed to get away: from people’s anger and fear, the suffocating cluttered skyline, even the lush vegetation where I live. Open space was what…

Twelve months ago, Americans could indulge in optimism. For a bright, shining moment, 2021 promised to be a year of recovery. The first vaccines for COVID-19 were going into health workers’ arms. The economy was…

As a former teacher, I strongly oppose the use of CRT in public school classrooms — but I’m not talking about critical race theory. I’m talking about Crappy Rejection Teaching, the concerted effort of self-serving…

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly played not-so-Secret Santa Wednesday, offering a one-time plan to put $250 in the hands of virtually every state income tax payer next year. “We can return money to taxpayers and give…

Twice in recent days, former president Donald Trump has spoken out more aggressively about the value of vaccines. Reluctance to get the shot still grips millions of Americans, and Mr. Trump’s public comments might help…

Among the effects of the COVID pandemic on the U.S. is a serious labor shortage. It contributes to the delivery problem which adds to price inflation. It contributes to production shortages which also aggravate inflation.…

My Christmas wish would be to have Iola officials hop on board the recycling wagon to prevent our Allen County Landfill from filling up with recyclable materials. As a business that handles voluminous amounts of…

This holiday season, as Kansas receives from the national government a Christmas present of $2.6 billion dedicated to infrastructure spending, my wish for 2022 would be for elected leaders, city planners, and traffic engineers alike…

The massive tornadoes that struck in mid-December claimed the lives of more than a dozen workers at an Amazon warehouse in Illinois and the Mayfield candle factory in Kentucky. Some of the surviving workers said…