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Weather report
For our small patch of north Lindsborg, the rain gauge and the snow stick tell us that last year was dry. Annual rainfall since...
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Balance of purpose
Of the 125-members in the Kansas House of Representatives, 76 were elected in five metropolitan counties. The count:
Johnson County ‒ 27 members: 11 Republicans,...
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Doctors and lawyers
McDill "Huck" Boyd sounded one of the first alarms a half-century ago: Rural Kansas was losing doctors and the state needed to find ways...
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Now, and then
Two Kansas governors, Democrats John Carlin and Laura Kelly, have encountered the local storms of a national inflation, a shared experience linked over 40...
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Debt and politics
First, the debt:
Each year the Congress blesses an extravagant number of programs that keep America going, from the farm bill and highways through health...
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Cities and towns: The story of a villainous former police detective in Kansas City recently made it to the east coast, where the Washington...
'Kansas town weighs racial
justice as ex-officer faces
charges of abuse'
Now in court, the case unfolds a story of rampant corruption and the consistent raping of...
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The Eight-County Message
The November election dust has settled to reveal another uneasy shuffling of Kansas politics and culture. Many eyes were on the race for governor;...
