The Allen County Fair Board should be commended for dogged determination.In the past year or so its members have taken stock of buildings in Riverside Park that support the annual fair and found them wanting…

Dear editor and citizens of Allen County,As your elected Republican candidate for county commissioner and your current commissioner, I have tried to remain neutral in the current race for Allen County sheriff between current Sheriff…

To the Editor:I write today, in this our final week before the election.  While I have personal opinions surrounding candidates for local, state, and federal offices, those who know me already know where I stand,…

If Gov. Sam Brownback were on this year’s ballot, he may have had a tougher time getting re-elected.A recent survey put Brownback’s favorability rating at 19 percent — the lowest of any sitting governor in…

Dear editor,This letter is to inform the reader that I support Allen County Sheriff Byran Murphy and his department and how it has evolved over his current administration.Sheriff Murphy has always communicated and shown support…

To and from work each day I pass a hand-painted yard sign that reads “Everybody Sucks, 2016, The U.S. is doomed.” The sign has been there for the last several months, I assume in reference…

I’ve philosophically eaten crow a few times. Once, on a dare, I ate the real thing. In late summer 1955 I was 12, the magic age by Dad’s decree for me to go hunting without…

Dear editor, I am writing in support of the re-election of Bryan Murphy to the office of Allen County sheriff. Bryan came to Allen County in 1994 from Wyandotte County where he was employed in…

In what is hoped was a backhanded compliment, Rep. Peggy Mast, R-Empor-ia, last week lauded the works of Adolf Hitler, mastermind of the slaughter of 6 million men, women and children. “His words are profound!”…

He was 6’4”.  I’m not. He weighed 250. I don’t. He was a college professor, I a student. He molested me. I came away feeling lucky to be alive.  It could have been so much…