The biggest criticism of politicians today is that they don’t represent voter interest in part because they are beholden to the pocketbooks of special interests. Over his political career, Gov. Sam Brownback has received almost…

“The universal similarity — that is the expression of the philosophy of a dull safety,” Sinclair Lewis wrote a century ago in “Main Street,” focusing on ethnic racism and cultural divides in an early 1900s…

We don’t have to elect Donald Trump to know his supply-side economics plan won’t work. All the country has to do is look to Kansas to see how badly the model fares.Trump bases his economic…

It’s déjà vu all over again.In 2014, two weeks after Gov. Sam Brownback secured re-election on the promises of a reinvigorated economy, revenue analysts admitted they had been wildly optimistic in their projections and advised…

In 1966, Iola High School was stuffed to the gills because almost half of its 868 students were enrolled at Allen County Community Junior College. Classes were more than just crowded. As many as 80…

It’s fair to say the Buster Keaton Celebration never took hold in Allen County. Over the past 23 years, it’s mostly been out-of-towners who attend the two-day event.Next year will be the last hurrah for…

We didn’t see this coming.But it doesn’t pay to recycle, according to a lengthy story in Sunday’s Kansas City Star.One reason is because the price of oil remains depressed, and petroleum products are essential to…

During August 92 people were shot dead in Chicago neighborhoods, among 1,300 shot and killed or wounded since Jan. 1. Many of the wounded will have debilitating effects for months, years, even a lifetime. According…

Less than a week after she contracted pneumonia, Hillary Clinton was back on the campaign trail. If she’d had it her way, we’d have never known she was sick. Hillary contended her persistent cough was…

At the time, skeptics called it a shell game.Kansas would borrow $1 billion to prop up its pension program on the assumption interest earned with the additional infusion would cover its debt service.That was in…