Terry Bullock died last week in Topeka. He was 79, retired, and was a venerable and respected state judge in Shawnee County for more than 30 years, five of them as chief judge of the Distric... Read more
June Crenshaw, matriarch of a renowned family and the venerable Shamrock Farms ranch in Kansas’ northern Flint Hills, died early Thursday, August 1, at her home following a brief illne... Read more
The Congress is under pressure to raise the nation’s $23 trillion debt limit by a late summer or early September deadline, when the borrowing authority of the Treasury Department expir... Read more
In a splash of 36 glossy pages, a magazine precedes the 71st McPherson County Fair now on in Canton. It’s an alluring promotion, listing dozens of events and attractions, particularly... Read more
Already in this youngish election season, we hear grumbling about the “progressive” agenda, how it is off-base, that people should at most take no more in government benefits tha... Read more
Out here in the hinterlands we might find it surprising that members of Congress are itching for raise in their current pay of $174,000 a year. Nervous Republicans, mindful of an election se... Read more
The first Democratic primary election debate is set for June 26 and 27 in Miami – ten candidates per event. Five more debates – more accurately scrums, as in rugby – are scheduled monthly fr... Read more
LINDSBORG – According to our gauge it rained ten times between May 6 and May 27 – 10¾ inches, a lot of rain for us in three weeks. Add another three inches-plus from three storms at the... Read more
LINDSBORG – When I think of him he is in the press box at a football game, marking his peculiar hieroglyphics in three colors on a sheet of lined computer paper. Or he is at his desk, peckin... Read more
Rep. Roger Marshall represents the state’s First Congressional District, a massive 69-county bloc that covers central and western Kansas and which roughly 700,000 people call ho... Read more
