Religion as governing
The matter of abortion festers on the August 2 ballot as a proposed constitutional amendment. There are two choices: yes or no. No maybe.
Say...
Kansas and Cuba
Like it or not, we are citizens of the world, our planet a shared breeding ground for promise or despair, isolation or inclusion. Two...
Glen Suppes
LINDSBORG – The great room was alive with voices, the thrum of conversation. Scores of people were arriving, alone or in pairs or clusters,...
The court of G.O.D.
In the early 1970s, Salina's legendary Police Chief, John Woody, had his own sly version of justice through consolidated law enforcement: "Put the judge...
The greatest nation (?)
There were many sermons on Memorial Day, a lot of reverent waving of Old Glory, pledges of allegiance and endurance, pronouncements that we live...
Life in color
"Small Wonders", an expansive new show, has opened at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg. It's an exhibit of smaller works by more...
Blue caves?
The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that the map of the state's four congressional districts is constitutional. Wyandotte County is sliced in half, north...
Truth vs. censorship
The matter of truth rises, like a Phoenix, as we approach the windswept bog of primary elections. Facts, so-called, will fly.
A fact that runs...
An un-legal question
As the mud-wrestling slaps on in court and on the streets, the question lingers over that new map for Kansas congressional districts: Is it...
Flat tax, fair tax?
The ink had barely dried on the governor's budget blueprint when State Sen. Gene Suellentrop, a Wichita Republican, proposed legislation to junk the Kansas...