Recently I personally encountered the exorbitant cost of using the Allen County ambulance service. Although I was expecting a quite sizeable charge I was none the less surprised by the numbers. The ride from LaHarpe…

Canada hasn’t taken out full page ads in American newspapers to brag about it, so maybe few in this country know that our neighbor to the north sailed through the recession with scarcely a nick,…

Kansas Attorney General Steve Six deserves support in this crusade. He is completing a friend-of-the-court brief this week on behalf of Albert Snyder and is asking other state attorneys general to join him.Snyder is the…

“Specter defeat signals a wave against incumbents,” the headline read above a story reporting that Sen. Arlen Specter had been defeated by Rep. Joe Sestak in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary.That’s one interpretation. Another is that…

A new, moral approach to immigation to the United States could best be tagged “Jessica’s Law.”As with the similarly named law aimed at sex offenders, this is targeted at those who discriminate against aliens.Jessica Coloti…

In the book, “Will Rogers’ World,” he says: “We are always reading how many men paid over a million dollars in income tax … But we never read about how many there is that are…

In reading the report of the city council I was quite alarmed to read the city was thinking of increasing our sales tax. As a small business owner in Humboldt I am totally opposed to…

Americans paid the lowest percentage of their incomes in taxes in 2009 than at any time since 1950.Writing in the May 10 issue of USA Today, Dennis Cauchon reported:“ … Federal, state and local income…

“Angela Henry, SAFE BASE director, asked for assistance last month, noting that $7,000 would be sufficient to fund the project.”  The fund requested was for a dental clinic for students in USDs 256, 257 and…

An energy bill that will give the United States a stronger position in the booming alternative energy industry and reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil has been introduced by Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and…