Corn brought $7.55 a bushel Tuesday, about double the mid-June 2010 price. On that same day, the Senate defeated a measure eliminating the 45-cents-a-gallon ethanol subsidy, which would have cut federal expenses by $6 billion…

Monday night’s debate among seven of the potential Republican presidential candidates proved at least one thing: It is not possible to make a sensible argument on a national issue of consequence in a couple of…

Jeff Immelt is chairman and CEO of General Electric and chairman of the President’s Jobs and Competitiveness Council. Ken Chenault is the chairman and CEO of American Express and a member of the council. The…

Dear Editor, Maybe the county should have considered maintaining, correcting and preserving the present hospital. The design was for upward expansion. Maintenance issues should have been ad-dressed and corrected.New hospital, a thorn in the side…

Dear Editor, After reading Wednesday’s paper concerning the new hospital, it came as no surprise that there is all kinds of debris in the soil. I told one of the persons in charge of the…

To Allen County commissioners and hospital trustees: I think it is time that the powers to be should realize that the land in east Iola where they want to build the hospital is in bad…

News flash: America’s newspapers are ailing.The date on that item should have been June 10, 2000, or earlier. But the Federal Communications Commission just got around to completing an 18-month study to discover the obvious:…

Anguish twisted Tony Weiner’s face as he confessed before TV cameras to sending lewd photos of himself over Twitter to six women he never met — and then lying about it over and over again…

The smiles on the faces of state budget-cutters are likely to turn to frowns.Conservative legislators in Kansas and most of the other 49 states have done a spectacular hatchet job on state budgets. And because…

A slow motion flood on the Missouri River is in progress. The river is already high. Six hundred residents in Hamburg, Iowa, were told Sunday to get out of their homes within 24 hours. And…