Opinion

GUEST COLUMN, Jackie Mundt, Kansas Farm Bureau

Fall doesn’t officially start until September, but August is the unofficial end of summer as a new school year begins. Even those of us who don’t have children in school feel the transition as churches, organizations and activities pick back up after a summer break.

Farmers are beginning to transition to fall as well. Our focus begins to move from irrigating crops and checking fields to preparing equipment for harvest and waiting impatiently for crops to dry down for harvest.

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

I have been blessed with many cousins.

My two cousins closest in age were both boys, Brian and Dane. We went camping and hiking together and stayed in the cabin up north. We all remember the day we made tea from red sumac berries, and—after we’d drunk about a gallon each—my Uncle Mike told us, “You know that stuff is a laxative, don’t you?” (For the record, it is not.)

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

Remember that guy from Texas who was supposed to be the next senator, and after losing that was going to be the next president, and after losing that was going to be the next governor?

Few remember him now, but his name was Beto O’Rourke.

O’Rourke lost to Ted Cruz in a close race for Senate in 2018, and the addiction to running for office took control of O’Rourke.

GUEST COLUMN, Laura Schoppe, President, Fuentek

The federal government may soon finalize guidance that could weaken ownership of intellectual property throughout the U.S. economy. This would affect a huge swathe of industries, among them biotechnology, clean energy, agriculture, and defense.

More specifically, the new guidance would cause companies large and small, as well as their investors, to balk at licensing and developing promising new technologies -- with severe consequences for American innovation.