Dear editor, Mayor or figurehead? That is the question. The proposal coming from our new city council is for a weakened mayor’s position. In effect the person getting the most votes, having run for the…

Friday the Storm Prediction Center in Norman issued a warning that severe weather, including baseball-sized hail and tornadoes, could strike central Oklahoma and range into Kansas as far as Salina this afternoon and evening. The…

A lawsuit has been filed in federal court by the Wyandotte Nation seeking to have land the tribe purchased in Park City, a Wichita suburb, approved as a site for a tribe-owned casino. Kansas has…

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack celebrated farming, rural America and farm families in the 160th Landon Lecture at Kansas State University Tuesday. It was a frankly flattering speech addressed directly to the ag students at…

Traffic deaths related to alcohol consumption have dropped in Kansas over the past two years. The Department of Transportation released statistics showing the number fell 50 percent between 2010 and 2011, from 76 to 38.…

Just like Allen County at the end of the last century, the whole nation now finds itself with more natural gas than it can put to good use. Allen County solved its “problem” by giving…

As Juliet said, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose would smell as sweet by any other name.” So, for economy’s sake, call it almost anything but “pink slime.” Even “lean, finely…

At last, a truly bipartisan issue has been found. President Obama and Mitt Romney agree the Augusta National golf club should open its membership to (horrors!) women. The president spoke through White House press secretary…

Mitt Romney won three more states Tuesday and is giving Rick Santorum a race in Pennsylvania, the former senator’s  home state. More to the point, President Barack Obama attacked Romney by name in Washington, D.C.…

Unemployment in the 12 nations which use the euro rose to 10.8 percent in February. Of the 17 countries in the eurozone, seven had unemployment rates above 10 percent, according to a Monday re- port…