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By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau Dear reader, Every Western movie worth watching features at least one full-blown bar room brawl. Such tumultuous scenes are chock...

Most big cities seem to have their own alternative newspaper that runs an annual poll asking readers to name their favorite place to get...

Well, what a wonderful week it has been to live in Kansas; half the state has burned to the ground and the other half...

This week’s Mad Hatter trophy goes to the Kansas Senate, for following Alice into Wonderland and approving plans for that miracle pipeline to bring...

Easter has so many memories; first and foremost are of Grandmother Pearl. Every Easter she would make me a new dress and often would...

Socially awkward situations. They happen to all of us, and by their very definition, they always happen at inopportune times. Such wuz what happened to...

By Frank J. Buchman “Getting up in front of a group of people still makes us very nervous.” Despite our maturity, unmemorable and uncountable number of...

By Doris Schroeder There is a story that publisher William Randolph Hearst had heard about a certain piece of artwork and decided that he wanted...

By Frank J. Buchman Kansas may have become more famous, perhaps infamous would be more appropriate, with the popular Wizard of Oz book and movie. It...

By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University.  “Well, it’s back to the old grind.” That...