Among the thorny questions that continue to bloody Kansas lawmakers is whether to change the public employees pension system and how to fund it adequately.The current KPERS pays retirement pensions based on salaries earned while…

Pittsburg State University has started a $4.5 million geo-thermal heating and cooling system calculated to pay for itself in fuel savings within 14 years.While the news report didn’t go into technical detail, geo-thermal in southeast…

As unemployment stays stubbornly high, stories of new and not-so-new college graduates unable to find jobs in their fields grab headlines. These are attention-getting tales because it was only a few years ago that a…

When Kansas legislators reconvene in Topeka this week they will be asked to make Kansas the first state in the union to strip federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood clinics and transfer the money…

Gallup pollsters went around the world asking people to define their personal state of being with one of these descriptive verbs: “thriving,” “struggling,” or “suffering.”From the answers received, they rated the nations on a “happiness”…

Bob Nease is chief scientist for a company called Express Scripts, which manages health benefits for more than 50 million people. He believes the key to reducing health care costs is changing the way Americans…

Chief Justice Lawton Nuss of the Kansas Supreme Court told a gathering of the League of Women Voters last week that the state’s  courts would have to be closed for 85 days every year if…

If someone were to poll the individuals who live in area towns outside of Iola as to why they choose to do so — I guarantee the majority of answers would be along the line…

 I was glad to see that we were going to have an animal control officer because we have a big stray cat problem in our neighborhood.About three years a go a lady moved into a…

Once again the wealthy are blaming the poor and middle class for the federal deficit. Once again the poor are buying into it. The rich want to cut the very programs that make us humane;…