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Midsummers and the call of home
Eight years ago, the annual Midsummers Festival moved to Riverside Park with the theme, Coming Home to Sweden. For a long time the Festival...
Compassion becomes a dirty word
...Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I...
Wedding bells for church and state
Prepareth thyself. The Republican candidates for president, all 700 of them, have anointed Kim Davis as chief officiant for the marriage of church and...
DEPARTMENT OF BASEBALL: The feeble grounder is the new home run?
A few Sundays ago, when the Royals were playing the Red Sox, Boston’s Pablo Sandoval hit a feeble ground ball toward the mound. The...
A crucial question, no answer in sight
Consider again: First, a university mathematician and recognized statistical expert has serious misgivings about voting patterns in the November 2014 state elections – serious...
Counting down to a crisis
Paul Davis, the Lawrence attorney who ran for governor against incumbent Sam Brownback, is among notable political experts who see a looming constitutional crisis...
Kobach’s crusade: Leave everything to him
The Legislature, ever protective of our democracy, has granted the state’s chief election clerk, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the power to prosecute people...
While we’re at it, let’s renounce the British
Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who wants to
be president, is a long-standing, steadfast critic of restoring
U.S.-Cuba diplomatic relations.
Ruio, who is of Cuban ancestry,...
Reason to be grateful for good government
An August 15 memo from Lindsborg City Administrator Greg DuMars provides a good look at the raw mechanics of local government, the hidden challenges...
DEPARTMENT OF MEMORIES: Early chess in Lindsborg
Anistasiya James, the new director at the Karpov International Chess School in Lindsborg, gave an inspired talk recently to the Kiwanis Club, recounting the...