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Anyone out there remember the Dennis Hastert scandal?   Hastert, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1999-2007), was indicted in late May and...

By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau We’re locked in the Dog Days of summer and the humidity is rolling through the roof. If the first...

    Last week, I attended the surprise birthday party for my young friend Ben denPitchett. It wuz Ben’s 20th birthday -- what he called...

By Frank J. Buchman   “The calves are out.”   After more than four decades, hollers of such into the kitchen, or around the barnyard, don’t strike alarm,...

Protecting Cowboys Is Life’s Dream Come True For Rodeo Bullfighter-Bulldogger By Frank J. Buchman Cowboys are dreamers, so it seems, often with fascination from early days...

  "ON THE DAY WHEN MAN TOLD THE STORY OF HIS LIFE TO MAN, HISTORY WAS BORN."                                                      Alfred de Vigny      I am on the board of directors...

Birthdays around the large salon I worked in for 15 years were always an adventure. Victor Lee, or Vic-Ta-Lee as his mother calls him,...

By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University. “Turn it up.” That’s what I say when...