The investigations and indictments continue for President Trump’s friends and associates. Some of them are in jail or headed there. On Dec. 20, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis became the fourth... Read more
The best bargaining chip in the great government shut-down impasse is not a border wall. It’s health insurance. So far, it’s unmentioned, but the smart Washington trader would offer truckloa... Read more
Earlier this month the Lawrence Journal-World closed its Capitol bureau and laid off the paper’s full-time Statehouse reporter, the tenacious Peter Hancock. Hancock is an astute veteran with... Read more
At about 2:25 p.m. on Monday afternoon, Oct. 29, a fire engine roared out of the Lindsborg station at First and Lincoln, heading west, then south on Main to highway Moments later another of... Read more
An old friend has now been in prison for five years. He has settled in at the minimum-security facility at Oswego, and he’ll be there for the rest of his life – his sentence for pleading gui... Read more
Political campaigns are among the more difficult assignments for reporters, a matter of measuring fact against fiction, with a responsibility for telling readers which is which. Campaigns ca... Read more
A lot of us codgers are sorely tempted to sing, in a fit of melancholic nostalgia, that we’re glad we’re not young any more. Particularly not if The Times’ Paul Krugman and other soothsayers... Read more
The notorious flag of the Confederacy, yet an idiot’s delight at select political gatherings and some southern football games, acquires new relevance in Kansas each day of the Kobach campaig... Read more
LINDSBORG ‒ When members of the Schoenhut Collectors Club convene on Oct. 12 in Lindsborg for their annual national meeting, Marsha Rolander will be at the heart of it. She convinced them to... Read more
I marked my first ballot as an eligible voter 50 years ago in a booth at a fire station in Lawrence, where I was a student at KU. Among those on that ballot were vice-president Hubert Humphr... Read more
