As a young boy, all of 14, I  lost my mother on the second Sunday of May, Mother’s Day, in 1972.On that afternoon I had told my mother how much I loved her, just moments…

One of the enlightening stories that Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger told here Thursday grew out of testimony she made to a Senate committee. The subject was “rating reforms.” The health care bill Congress passed…

As Kansas lawmakers went to work this morning, a coalition of Demo-crats and moderate Re-publicans hoped to pass a sales tax hike that would bring in about $300 million additional and the Senate continued to…

Faisal Shahzad was pulled off an airliner headed for Dubai early Tuesday morning. He is suspected, and has admitted, of driving an SUV onto a crowded Times Square street in New York City and setting…

In response to the Forum in Tuesday, April 27, from LaHarpe resident Judy Burkholder.Thank you, thank you, thank you for your well-written letter to the Forum about the four-wheelers in our town of LaHarpe.I, too,…

Since our new track was built, we have been unsuccessful in developing a home invitational. Next best would be to host the Southeast Kansas League meet when possible. This season, that will happen on Thursday,…

If we were to start anew, few of us middle-aged folks would qualify for health insurance under today’s industry practices.Victims of a past back injury, an over-used wrist or an overactive thyroid would be tainted…

Prospects for a stand-pat state budget darkened over the weekend. State tax collections in April dropped $65 million below the expected level, lifting the estimated 2011 deficit by that much. The new numbers meant that…

Wednesday the telephone rang at the house. A woman said she was calling for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and wanted to know did I favor or oppose “those tax increases.” When told I favored…

Oil continues to flow into the Gulf of Mexico from a well 5,000 feet below the surface of the sea at an estimated rate of 210,000 gallons (5,000 barrels) a day. The off-shore drilling rig…