Opinion

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

I’ve been trying to meditate a bit more.

I am a little anxious, and meditation calms me. It helps me not to fly off in six directions at once. “What have you forgotten to do?!” anxiety is always screaming at me, and since I’ve obviously forgotten it, I never have a good answer. Except meditation. Meditation is a good answer.

Meditation says, “Oh! Look at that. It’s an anxious thought.” Anxiety does not appreciate this, being relegated to a mere emotion, transitory and (let’s face it) not terribly important. It can’t really work itself into a full-blown panic with that kind of attitude.

GUEST COLUMN, Vance Ginn, Kansas Policy Institute

Americans are voting with their feet, and states are either competing for them — or watching them leave.

Data posted by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity at VoteWithYourFeet.net make it painfully clear: Kansas is hemorrhaging residents. Over the last decade, it had a net loss of nearly 100,000 people to other states. That’s not just bad optics — that’s economic decline in motion.

A graph showing states gaining from domestic migration and those losing, across the US. Kansas is -97k from 2012-2022.

SAINTS PERSPECTIVE, SCCC President Brad Bennett

Renewal reminds us of why we’re here and what lies ahead

We have all gotten those emails and texts that notify us it’s time to renew one subscription or the other. Everything from streaming media to insurance policies runs on a cycle like this, and Seward County Community College is no different.

In fact, our new year started over the summer, where we broke records with our enrollment rates on campus and with Saints Anywhere. It was a great opener for academic year 2025-26 and our Wildly Important Goal of increasing enrollment by five percent each year.

GUEST COLUMN, Star Parker

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is upset with Texas.

There’s a reason he should be upset. California companies are pulling up in droves and moving to the Lone Star State and elsewhere.

But that isn’t what’s bothering him. Newsom cares about politics and power, not markets and business.

He’s upset that the Texas state legislature is moving to redistricting that could add up to five Republican seats in 2026. So, Newsom wants to redistrict, which could add another five Democrat seats in California.