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"BURN DOWN YOUR CITIES AND LEAVE OUR FARMS, AND YOUR CITIES WILL SPRING UP AGAIN AS IF BY MAGIC; BUT DESTROY OUR FARMS AND THE GRASS...

  The nasty label of “liberal” has been stuck on those who favor public schools, public highways, Social Security with simpler programs of Medicare and Medicaid, and such...

  The Kansas Republican Party announced the other day that Jim Joice had been hired as executive director, replacing Clay Barker, who had joined the staff of...

Long hours, less-than-ideal weather conditions and working around large machinery combine to make farming one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States....

Don Yoder remembers tagging along on coon’ hunts with his dad when he was 6 or 7 years old and could barely carry a...

  There's a fad occurring in the western world that I'd like to encourage. Ranch people are naming their kids rodeo-inspired words. I'm not...

              Awaking early this morning to the welcome sound of pitter patter on the street, I knew in my...

The recent tragedy of a driverless Uber car killing a pedestrian in Arizona is raising questions about the future of this technology. I think we...

  In spite of the latest school funding study, legislators should avoid the temptation to scrap or radically alter the state’s current formula for aid to local...

I have a friend in southeast Kansas, ol’ Hugh G. Gardiner, who grew up in eastern Kentucky on a hard-scrabble farm with a lot...