Athal, Cedar and Gaylord, all in Smith County, and Brownell in Ness County have been added to the list of 32 Kansas post offices under review for possible closure.Closing a post office is a very-last-ditch…

The local school district is losing between $50,000 and $120,000 a year in bad debts.That’s the hard truth. Perhaps a more palatable way of saying it is that the district has a very charitable school…

On a lazy July day with the outside temperature flirting with 100, inside at the computer seemed the best place to be. Yahoo found Del Brinkman, who was dean of the KU school of journalism…

As Aug. 2 draws closer, day by day, there are no signs that the “cooler heads” rational people put their faith in will prevail. Instead, the nation seems to have been taken over by know-nothing…

Immigration problem may solve itselfWhile Congress finds other things — almost any unimportant thing that pops up — to do rather than deal with immigration reform, the stream of illegals from Mexico has slowed to…

Raise the flags back to full-staff, Mayor Mike Woolston ordered. Beth Peacock, city events manager, declared that Monday’s celebration would be the best ever. There would be no Red Cross booth, no sales people for…

Minnesota’s state government shut down Friday.Chris Lapakko, one of the 22,000 state workers laid off, took the occasion to make a point. He pitched a tent on the Capitol grounds in St. Paul and told…

Kansas may soon have another “first” to nail on the barn door.When Gov. Sam Brownback vetoed the appropriation the Legislature made for the Kansas Arts Commission, that made Kansas number one: The first of the…

Today in Washington President Obama is meeting with congressional leaders to deal with the need to increase the debt ceiling and keep the country in business.The debt ceiling has been raised many times over decades…

Europe’s big cities have declared war on the car. The goal is to make car use increasingly expensive and driving in the city so frustrating that car owners will gladly leave their vehicles at home…