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The ghosts of Harry Lime
A half-dozen or more Covid-19 vaccines are now at work in the global battle against the pandemic. From the United States there are Pfizer,...
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What once was, no more
Ken Burns's "Jazz", a 10-part, 19-hour documentary, was broadcast again recently on PBS, wonderful today as it was 20 years ago when it first...
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A Taxing Goblin
The Kansas Legislature faces a special challenge this year, the budget fallout from a covid assault on the economy. The state's current taxing and...
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Time, and ’empescher’
Time, and 'empescher'
The term impeachment runs far back in time, before this country was discovered and before democracy was a even gleam in any...
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A scab that won’t heal
Kansas was briefly atop the Washington news this month when Rep. Jake LaTurner began his initiation in Congress by announcing he had tested covid...
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Faith and futility
A recent Gallup poll revealed that American approval of Congress had dropped to 15 percent. This is much higher that the nine percent approval...
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We and our government
The Republican tradition in Kansas is caught in a paradox, one that started before most farms had electricity and the only air conditioning was...
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‘Candles’ and BBC
LINDSBORG – At the post office the other day a woman from years ago greeted me by name, and I struggled not to draw...
