Opinion

L&T VIEWPOINT

When Todd Stanton ran for Seward County Commission, he made an issue of the county needing a financial controller, someone who could watch over the county’s finances across the board and develop strategies for sound financial management of the county’s resources and taxpayer dollars.

This suggestion seemed to resonate with the voters in his district, and he was elected, unseating an incumbent who served for 32 years.

The commission as a whole should take Stanton’s victory as a sign of support for the need of a CFO-level position.

GUEST COLUMN, Nina Teicholz, Ph.D.

America may be poised for a nutrition policy reset, one that starts to reverse the epidemic of chronic disease afflicting a majority of Americans. With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tapped to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the incoming administration has an opportunity to scrutinize a once-rare but now pervasive ingredient in our diet: seed oils.

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

We’ve been writing about the coming of the Messiah, in light of Galatians 4:4 which reads, “But when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman.” Not much is written of Jesus’ boyhood, but today we’ll take a look at some things that shaped the Son of God, “born of a woman”, into the Man of God.

GUEST COLUMN, Andrei Iancu, Council for Innovation Promotion

Over the last two decades, judicial decisions have made it harder for inventors to keep patent-infringing goods off the market. Intellectual property theft costs the U.S. economy as much as $600 billion annually, indirectly aiding geopolitical competitors like China, which is the primary IP infringer.

The origins of the problem go back almost two decades. For most of U.S. history, inventors who proved that a competitor had infringed their patent could obtain binding court orders — called injunctions — which compelled the infringer to stop.