David Stockman, remember, was President Ronald Reagan’s budget director while Reagan was cutting taxes and spending hundreds of billions in borrowed money on defense to win the Cold War by forcing the U.S.S.R. to bankrupt…

Someday soon Iolans will be given the opportunity to put a brass plate on a door to a private room in the new Allen County Hospital proudly proclaiming that their family helped furnish the room…

Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of the deficit reduction commission, put a plateful of their ideas on the table last  Wednesday, more than two weeks before the Dec. 1 due date President Barack Obama…

Sunflower Electric Power seems likely to get a permit to build a coal-fired generating plant in Holcomb. Gov. Mark Parkinson said he would support a scaled-down coal plant months ago. Rod Bremby, secretary of the…

A war on earmarks has been declared by Sen. Jim DeMint, the South Carolina Republican who has made himself a spokesman for tea party priorities.Sen. DeMint said Tuesday he’ll force a showdown with Senate Minority…

Thirty-two-year-old Jerome Dixon was shot to death by Wichita police last Friday. He died because he pointed a gun at a policeman and refused to drop it when ordered to do so.We don’t know much…

A Kansas Board of Regents task force recommends that the  state’s six universities raise their entrance requirements to give young men and women  a better chance at life.Board chairman Gary Sherrer led the task force…

Last Thursday the United Nations named Norway as the country with the best quality of life. Norwegians will shrug at the announcement. So what’s new, they’ll ask. This is the eighth straight year they’ve been…

Legislative researchers predict a $492 million deficit in the Kansas budget for fiscal year 2012, which begins July 1. Much of the shortfall will be created when federal stimulus funds dry up next year. Hope…

Here’s a classic case of a left hand pulling while the right hand pushes: Dairy Management, a creation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is very successfully increasing the consumption of cheese in the U.S.…