Opinion

For Austin, and all the lost brothers

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

We have a large family, 5 children and spouses, 15 grandchildren, 2 great-grands, and many siblings and extended family. Three weeks ago, we were meeting with a church group, and we commented that while many had experienced losses, we weren’t able to fully understand since all of our loved ones, from this generation down, were alive. The very next morning, that changed with a phone call from our youngest son.

Splitting your ticket

GUEST COLUMN, John Richard Schrock, Education Frontlines

My Democrat uncle was elected sheriff in an otherwise completely Republican county in Indiana in the 1950s. As a youngster at the time, I saw how he refused to evict a young man and his wife and young child from their rented house when the man’s employer had gone bankrupt and he could not pay the rent. Instead, the sheriff helped the man find work. That is what the public saw, and how he continued to be re-elected in a county that was overwhelmingly run by the other Party.

Future me

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

I’m usually pretty good about doing things I don’t want to do. I’ve been alive long enough to know that getting starting is always the hardest part. But nothing is harder for me to start than doing weights.

I say “doing” weights because I don’t actually lift anything other than myself. I started out with push-ups because a friend suggested a “100-push-up challenge.” I had never done any upper-body exercise of any kind. I couldn’t imagine I could do 100 push-ups—and it turns out I was right. I couldn’t for almost two years.

There are threats to democracy, but they are coming from the left

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

Terms like “Ultra MAGA” are designed to denigrate those who support Donald Trump and to characterize them as dangerous to democracy and the American system of government.

It’s all a joke, of course.

For one, Trump faced opposition in the Republican primary before securing enough votes to become the Republican nominee for president.

Sunflower and the bull calf

GUEST COLUMN, Kim Baldwin, Kansas Farm Bureau

Our fall calving season has just wrapped up with another successful year that has now brought views of lively baby calves dotting our pasture.

Since our calving season usually falls within the same time as the start of our fall harvest, it is my responsibility to keep watch of the cattle in the pasture while my husband and father-in-law focus on harvest.