To the editor: Once again Iola Mayor Bill Shirley has decided an issue for the entire county. It seems the Allen County commissioners, as well as the county department heads, just go along with whatever…

An impressive array of community leaders from over this corner of the state met in Iola Friday to kick off Project 17. The organization has as its goal to turn southeast Kansas into a hive…

As the Republican candidates continue to write the campaign ads against their eventual nominee, political junkies can wonder aloud about the role of the primaries in choosing party nominees. Tomorrow New Hampshire will vote; on…

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger asked federal regulators to give Kansas a waiver from regulations requiring health insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of premium income on health care. She wanted the waiver,…

Iowa left Mitt Romney much farther ahead in the contest for the Republican nomination than Tuesday’s numbers indicate. He tied with Rick Santorum and Ron Paul was only 3 percentage points behind them. But no…

Last summer, when the impasse over raising the debt ceiling had the world on edge, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta agreed that the defense budget could be cut by $450 billion over the next decade, an…

If you are reading this at dinner time today the Iowa caucuses are only minutes away from being decided. And as the sun sets on the first voting day of the 2012 nominating campaign, a…

The New Year gets off to a great start with Sunday and Monday as holidays and nothing but sunny days as far ahead as anyone can pretend to see. So let’s climb to the top…

Gov. Sam Brownback said Tuesday he is willing to consider ideas from legislators for modifying his plan to overhaul how the state finances its public schools. But Landon Fulmer, his policy director, said he didn’t…

What on earth has happened to the Republican Party? Saturday the Senate voted 89-10 for a compromise bill that would extend the payroll tax cut for two months, extend unemployment benefits through February and keep…