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By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University.   “Let’s go to the beach!” No, you won’t...

By Frank J. Buchman It’s actually carrying on a family tradition. Better than that in several ways. Old high school auditorium Thursday evening, only grandchild, a...

CARTHAGE, Miss.– We traveled the Natchez Trace until the gas gauge told us the car needed a fill. We took highway 16 east through...

"SUCCESS IS A SCIENCE; IF YOU HAVE THE CONDITIONS, YOU GET THE RESULT."  Oscar Wilde Well it is over after 28 years.  Yes the last...

"TOTO, I DON'T  THINK WE ARE IN KANSAS ANYMORE."                                ...

I've been a hustler all my life. In high school I was the richest kid in my class and if I wasn't sleeping, going...

BY DAVE RANNEY Shortly after Gov. Sam Brownback took office in 2011, there were almost 5,200 children in Kansas’ foster care system. Today, there are...

Mississippi and Kansas: reconciliation and relapse My urge to visit Mississippi was driven mostly by two compulsions: a longing to explore the great Delta, landscape...

We missed the Big Snow and the Big Rain, but we still got 2.5-inches of rain here in the Flint Hills — which wuz...

By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University.   Being fit: That should be a goal for...