Ideological purity comes with a high price in Kansas. Monday, the office of Attorney General Derek Schmidt revealed it had spent $597,000 through March on outside lawyers hired to defend the anti- abortion laws. It…

As you read this lead sentence reporting the death of ultra marathon runner Micah True, listen to the reverential poetry: “Up mountainsides, through deserts and the wildest of rugged terrain, there was little that could…

Dear editor, As a resident of Iola since 1958, I have never seen so much discrimination against city employees. It seems judgment is made without true facts. When you were elected to office, I don’t…

State Republican leaders in the House have figured out how to defraud the people of Kansas without going to jail. When it came time to pass a supplemental budget for this year amounting to $24.5…

Missouri’s poor-boy state government has a lesson to teach Kansas lawmakers — just in case enough of them are in the mood to learn.  The headline over the lead editorial in Sunday’s Kansas City Star…

Dear editor, Last April, Iolans elected the new eight-member city council and Mayor Shirley, after the public referendum to change the city’s form of government.  According to the Register’s article on the referendum (Oct. 19,…

It is useful to the public’s understanding of the health care crisis in our country that the national health care act is before the Supreme Court just as Iola’s health insurance policies also are under…

Steven Rattner is a Wall Street executive who looks around at his fellow high-earners and is frankly horrified at what he sees — the rapidly deepening divide between the wealthy 1 percent of the nation’s…

Ken Hunt was fired Tuesday afternoon as human resources director for the City of Iola.  The execution was made single-handedly by Mayor Bill Shirley, though no doubt he was heavily influenced by councilmen Ken Rowe…

Last week Rick Santorum said it would be better to re-elect President Obama than elect Mitt Romney. Mr. Romney replied that Santorum was the strongest guy on Obama’s team. Both demonstrated they have developed into…