Gov. Rick Perry of Texas got noticed right away in his first days as an active candidate for the Republican nomination for president. The headlines came when he called Ben Bernanke a traitor for the…

A few years ago Kansas Sec. of Transportation Deb Miller had a group look at future needs for the state’s highways, airports and railroads. Among the topics of discussion was the federal highway fuels tax.…

As the committee of 12 buckle down to the task of prescribing another $1.5 trillion in budget savings over the next decade most of them will be faced with the vote-killing prospect of putting thousands…

Washington, D.C. officials want the home of the nation’s capital to become an Internet gambling hub. If they are successful in overcoming the legal barriers, every computer would become a casino, a poker parlor and…

Rep. Michele Bachmann won by a hair, though it be long and brown, at Saturday’s straw poll in Ames, Iowa. That she bested a slate of nine men, attests to the tenacity of which she…

If city councilmen need a nudge to approve the city’s participation in energy efficiency upgrades of Iolans who complete homes audits, make a point to give them one.This is a program, under the Take Charge!…

Sonic owners have no intention of opening a drive-in in Neosho Falls, or any of many other small towns that dot the Kansas landscape.Population density and traffic volume are too sparse to make one profitable.Same…

I figure we all have a dog in this fight over raising the federal debt limit.Figuratively speaking, grandma’s worried if she’s going to get her Social Security check next month; Uncle Bill’s military pension is…

Monday’s front page reported Gov. Sam Brownback was working toward eliminating the Kansas income tax.The premise is that it frees up money that supposedly will be spent on new business ventures, luring people to our…

While the president, House speaker and other Washington hangers-on worry about the debt ceiling and how to avoid fiscal catastrophe, Mark Bittman has his attention focused on a revolutionary way to save the world —…