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…

Monday the Supreme Court threw out a class action suit brought by lawyers against Walmart on behalf of its female employees — about 1.5 million individual women. The 5-4 decision pitted the conservatives against the…

It is easy to be pessimistic about Afghanistan. The war has been going on for 10 bloody years. It is costing $10 billion a month — three times more than it was at its beginning.…

Upon reading microfilmed copies of the Registers of the 1960s and 1970s, as I have been doing to update our Annals of Iola and Allen County, one is struck by the number of fatal car…

A  couple of weeks ago I was with a group which toured the Salina campus of Kansas State University. The most popular class it offers is in aviation. Students learn to fly small aircraft for…

Last week, 32 Saudi Arabian women drove their automobiles on the streets of their capital city  to demonstrate that, one said, “this is a right for women that is not banned by any law or…

As was expected, the to-heck-with-the-poor-folks philosophy that rules Kansas these days will result in a tuition increase at the six state universities in the fall. The increases range from 6.9 percent at Emporia State to…

One needs only to look as far as any major medical facility to know that there are many benefits, both the economies of scale and convenience to the patient, to have medical offices close to…

I have been contacted by local citizens regarding the site of the new hospital. Many are not in favor of the site by the current medical clinic because of the costs associated with the purchase…

Kansas was used as an example in a national story on Medicaid financing Thursday.“R. Andrew Allison, who is executive director of the Kansas Health Policy Authority and president of the National Association of Medicaid Directors,…