Elizabeth “Libby” Ensley, election commissioner for Shawnee County, is far and away the most qualified candidate in either party for Kansas secretary of state.She has been running elections in Shawnee County for the past 18…

Rep. Bill Otto deserves the support of district Republicans in the Aug. 3 primary.His vote for the one-penny sales tax increase restored some of the money cut from school funding, which was critically important in…

Kris Kobach was chairman of the Kansas Republican Party in 2007 and 2008. Christian Morgan worked for him as executive director. The two ran the office so sloppily and spent money so profligately that the…

Monday’s editorial on globalization made several errors in its recounting of the history of Berg Manufacturing, Echlin, Inc. and the progression of the company to Haldex. The errors were made because the “facts” came from…

Rep. Jerry Moran should be nominated by Kansas Republicans for the U.S. Senate over Rep. Todd Tiarht. While both have campaigned for the nomination by appealing to the far, far right fringe of the party,…

Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands are the happiest countries in the world, according to a Gallup Poll scientifically designed to measure how content individuals are with their lives.All five are wealthy countries, proving…

The progress of Berg Manufacturing to today’s Haldex is worthy of William Hogarth, the artist who told the story of “A Rake’s Progress” in eight celebrated paintings in 1754. Hogarth showed how Tom Rakewell dissipated…

Mayor Bill Maness hit all the right notes in his comment on the impending closing of Haldex Saturday.Time spent bemoaning the decision to chase cheaper wages in Mexico is time wasted, he said. The plant…

I respectfully present another viewpoint from your opinion letter in Monday’s paper.  The subject was Judge Tauro’s decision to overturn part of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.    First of all I would like to…

“This is the year of the hospital,” Allen County’s three commissioners pronounced at the Thrive Allen County annual meeting last fall.Chuck Wells emphatically agrees.Speaking at a very well attended public meeting Tuesday night in La-Harpe,…