Two years ago Richard Scrushy of Alabama was ordered by a judge to pay $2.87 billion to HealthSouth, the company he founded in 1984 — and then plundered, destroying the value of the company’s stock…

Monday night President Barack Obama reviewed what the United States and its allies had done in Libya, why our nation is involved and what the goal is. The Associated Press provided the text of his…

Mark Twain started to write his autobiography many times but gave it up as a task probably impossible but certainly unrewarding. Many of those efforts were tossed in the trash. But others were kept and…

Although I don’t live in the Iola city limits and can’t vote for mayor, I felt compelled to voice my opinion.I have known John Smith for many years. He and his wife moved away a…

To the Editor,Macomb (Ill.) lost not only an outstanding coach but also a valued member of the community March 16 when Western Illinois University announced it would not renew the contract of women’s basketball coach…

Things happen first in California, Californians like to say, and then spread across the country. Kansas doesn’t need what’s happening in Costa Mesa. The city there handed out pink slips to 213 of its employees …

We cannot play policeman to the world, we proclaim — and then blow our whistle and thump Col. Moammar Gadhafi about the shoulders.He is a thug, a murderer, an international terrorist, a liar and a…

Using emergency procedures, House Republicans voted last week to eliminate the $5 million appropriation for public radio. That amounts to one ten-thousandth of 1 percent of the federal budget. The effect on federal spending, the…

A plan to lure out-of-staters into 50 Kansas counties with an income tax break was on the way to Gov. Sam Brownback’s desk Friday. The 50 counties all lost 10 percent or more of their…

A coalition of the sane in Libya should put Moammar Gadhafi in chains and run up the white flag. Today.That’s assuming that the colonel and his sons have not already fled to Somalia or some…