Rep. Lynn Jenkins had two suggestions for beefing up Social Security when she was in Iola Wednesday: increase the retirement age to 68 in recognition of the fact that we are living longer; and index…

Gov. Sam Brownback’s ideological wars against poor women and the arts are costing Kansas.Kansas is in a legal battle with Planned Parenthood of Kansas over the federal funding the Brownback administration has diverted to other…

Think about kids –I’m writing in reference to people speeding down the streets in our school zones and elsewhere. School has begun, there are children everywhere. They may not see the vehicles coming and step…

Bernie Koch runs the Kansas Economic Progress Council, which studies the state’s economy and makes proposals to stimulate growth. In a press release Monday, Koch took a look at the effect government austerity was having…

Gov. Sam Brownback’s ideological wars against poor women and the arts are costing Kansas.Kansas is in a legal battle with Planned Parenthood of Kansas over the federal funding the Brownback administration has diverted to other…

A team of Australian and British geologists say in an article in Nature Geoscience they have discovered fossilized, single-cell organisms that are 3-4 billion years old — which would make them the oldest known fossils…

As of now, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas will win the Republican presidential nomination, I would guess. Not because he is the best qualified. Either Jon Huntsman of Utah or Mitt Romney of Massachusetts would…

The power of diplomacy and economic sanctions is being tested again by the United States and its European allies. Thursday President Barack Obama, the European Union, and the leaders of Britain, France and Germany joined…

Joplin’s schools opened on time! The exclamation point says it all. Many — including the construction workers who made it happen — didn’t believe Joplin’s students, all 6,978 of them, could possibly be back behind…

A woman who calls herself Annie Leonard is the author of “The Story of Stuff.” Annie thinks we pay way too much attention to stuff.“We’re in the midst of a triple crisis: economy, environment and…