Opinion

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

Yesterday I saw a friend, Bridget, whom I had not seen for a full year. “How have you been?” she asked.

“I have learned a lot about myself this year,” I told her. But at the time it was hard to say just what I’d learned.

It’s the time of year when we think of what we’ve learned in the year behind us and make resolutions for the new year. I try not to make New Year’s resolutions. All the studies show that motivation wanes by February — if we’re lucky. Changing my life by flipping a switch on December 31st is not a feasible plan. I remind myself that it is the small changes that matter. It is the daily habits that add up. It is the incremental improvements I make every day and week that result in lasting change.

But not this year. This year, I’m making a New Year’s resolution.

GUEST COLUMN, Vance Ginn,Kansas Policy Institute

The debate over school choice in Kansas often gets bogged down in politics and process. But the latest data make the stakes clear.

The 2026 ABCs of School Choice from EdChoice is the most comprehensive inventory of private school choice programs in the country. After 25 years of tracking these policies, EdChoice doesn’t just catalog programs — it evaluates them against a clear standard of what works.

By that standard, Kansas is not keeping pace.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

I didn’t know Adam’s last name, but that didn’t matter.

His Youtube channel called “The Daily Woo” shared a chapter in his life of being an annual pass holder at the Disney parks, and he would share the experiences, the ride openings, closures and a host of other happenings.

He usually started his vlog with “Today’s adventure takes us ...” and always asked if we would join him on his excursion.

His mellow style, calm demeanor and inter- activity with other vloggers and characters endeared him to many.

GUEST COLUMN, Nina Teicholz,founder of Nutrition Coalition

For over half a century, Americans have been urged to shy away from saturated fats, found mainly in animal products.

Paradoxically, decades of adherence to this advice have coincided with rising levels of chronic disease.

Put plainly: The war on saturated fat — rooted in the hypothesis that it causes heart disease — has never been based on sound science.

Fortunately, this long-overdue change now looks likely to happen. Next year, the federal government will release the Dietary Guidelines for Americans — the nutritional blueprint that shapes everything from school lunches to hospital meals — and officials have finally signaled that they’ll lift the decades-old limit on saturated fat.