Dear editor, I would like to take this opportunity to encourage voters in District 9 to vote for Judy Brigham for Kansas House of Representatives. I have known Judy for over 25 years and have…

Thomas L. Friedman has the credentials to make judgments about U.S. politicians and their efforts to win the Jewish vote.  First, Friedman is Jewish. Much more important, he is a long-time student of the Middle…

Dear editor, I know it is hot and I know it is dry. I have lived through these cycles since the 1930s. Nobody has ever been able to change the weather. This year we have…

Focusing on Kansas, AP writer John Hanna wrote Monday about the multi-state campaign to drive all of the moderates out of the Republican Party and defeat lawmakers who refuse to swear fealty to the radical…

Dear editor, I have known Ed Bideau going back to the late 1970s when I was a deputy sheriff and he was our new county attorney. I worked with him on many cases while I…

Looking for a sure-fire vocation: Go into health care. The Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare) is scheduled to expand Medicaid to millions of now-uninsured Americans by 2014. Thousands of additional physicians will be needed to…

Dick Cheney’s heart transplant perked him up enough to push him into the presidential race. President Obama was, he told a newsman, a “weak president.” Weak, he explained, because he is pulling U.S. troops out…

Dear editor, I am writing this letter in support of Ed Bideau for the Kansas House of Representatives in the 9th District. I have known Ed since he was 15. We lived behind the Bideau…

The primary election next week is an important one for Republicans in Kansas. If far-right Republicans win those nominations, they also are likely to dominate the Legislature — Kansas has never been so solidly Republican…

Dear editor, I am writing this letter, to endorse Ed Bideau as representative for the Kansas House, 9th District. I’ve known Ed since coming to Chanute in 1989. Of utmost importance to me, Ed is strong…