Last week House Speaker John Boehner removed Kansas First District Congressman Tim Huelskamp from the House Agriculture and Budget committees because Huelskamp had voted against Boehner on key issues.Specifically, Huelskamp voted against the agreement in…

Wednesday is 12/12/12. Quick, buy a Powerball ticket using those magic numbers. Buy two. Or play 12 on a roulette wheel. Black and red. Twelve stands for a queen in playing cards. Three queens are…

This season’s front page visits with Iola retail merchants are the 2012 version of “be local, buy local— a smart way to live. Each one of the stories gives Register readers shopping tips for Christmas…

Kansas senators Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran voted against an international treaty modeled on the Americans With Disabilities Act Tuesday. They were two of the five votes needed to ratify the treaty which Kansan Bob…

 Jeffrey Hillman is the 54-year-old homeless man who hit the news last week when a compassionate police officer bought him a $100 pair of lined boots. Hillman had been sitting, propped up against a building,…

Here’s the latest nuts-about-guns tidbit. The $631 billion defense bill now before Congress has a line inserted by the Veterans Affairs Department which puts the names of veterans deemed too mentally incompetent to handle their…

One of the changes the new rightwing Legislature seems certain to make next year is to give the governor the power to appoint appellate court judges, subject to confirmation by the Senate.Today those appointments are…

Standing around the coffee pot Sunday at church conversation turned to the end of the world. This old globe will give it all up on Dec. 21, when a 5,125-year cycle known as the Long…

Giving up the paper dollar for that good-looking gold coin would save the American taxpayer some $4.4 billion over the next 30 years, the government estimates. Vending machine operators love the idea. Feeding paper money…

Einstein was right. Those who do the same thing over and over again and expect different results are insane. Congress and the administration deserve the label. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner handed…