Come February, Congress must raise the U.S. debt ceiling or see the nation default on its obligations. Republicans promise to exact a fearful price for being responsible. President Obama says he won’t play that game…

Most Americans will wind up paying more taxes to the federal government in 2013 than they did last year because the payroll tax to support Social Security and Medicare returns to 6.2 percent from 4.2…

Groups representing retired public employees want Kansas lawmakers to provide annual cost-of-living increases to their pension checks. State Sen. Jeff King, who chaired a committee which studied the KPERS system and recommended reforms, told an…

On New Year’s night Kansas senators Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran voted to pull the nation back from the edge of the fiscal cliff and prevent what may have been an economic catastrophe. Roberts and…

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach doesn’t believe that actions have consequences so he had no trouble rejecting the charge that the drastic anti-immigrant laws he helped craft in Arizona and Alabama were part of…

Kansas will stride into 2013 smiling. Unemployment dropped to 5.4 percent in November while the national rate was 7.7 percent. Personal income increased strongly, driven primarily by high commodity prices that boosted farm families. Kansas…

On my computer desktop I have a picture of my granddaughter Olive whose gleeful face always puts me in good cheer.Most Thursdays I serve as Louise and Nick’s baby-sitter up in Lawrence. I leave at…

Everyone has a story.Seldom has that been more true, from the  Register’s perspective, than in the past year. I wrote about a woman, Diana Ross, who grew up during the Nazi blitz of England in…

Here’s how to know if you’re happyYou feel well-rested. People treat you with respect. You smile a lot and laugh in between smiles. You learned or did something interesting and had feelings of enjoyment yesterday.…

Christmas has come and gone, but did you miss someone on your list? If so, there’s time to make amends.Here at the Register, the Bowlus Fine Arts Center tops every list.Maybe you went to one…