L&T OPINION

Adam Hamilton’s pitch to the voters is a very good one. Too bad none of it is accurate or believable.

Politicians can promise many things, from never raising taxes to governing from the middle.

The fact is Washington, D.C., is not designed from the middle, even if Kansans were naive enough to believe Hamilton’s claims that he would do so.

Laura Kelly governed Kansas from the left after claiming to be a middle-of-the-road politician. She was overruled by the Kansas Legislature a record number of times after Kelly set a record number of vetoes.

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

After reading Galatians chapter 1, someone recently asked me a simple question, "What is the gospel?" I thought it about a little while, and my answer was equally simple: the gospel is life. The gospel is not a set of ideas, or a list of rules; it is the announcement that real life has broken into a world of death, and it is offered to us in Jesus Christ.

God created human beings to live in relationship with Him. He formed man from dust, and breathed into him the breath of life (Genesis 2:7). When Adam and Eve sinned, that relationship was damaged, and spiritual and physical death entered the world. But Jesus came to give life, and that is good news (the gospel)! Through Him, we can be born again, spiritually and eternally. The moment we believe, we begin to experience the abundant life He promised.

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon

Sometimes I have to give myself a talking-to.

I got back from my whirlwind library tour and had a lot to do. I tried to get things done and felt like I was spinning my wheels, leaving tire tracks on my office floor.

One of the things I had to do was record the comments made on the surveys handed out at my performances. This was something I was dreading. I suspected most of them would be nice — and there is nothing harder for me to do than read nice things written about me. I get embarrassed. I don’t want to do it. But recording those surveys was one of the things on my long to-do list. So I started.

GUEST COLUMN, Jeffrey Gerrish, former Deputy U.S. trade representative

For more than a year, German officials have obstructed one of the Trump administration's most important reform initiatives. And the president's patience just ran out.

The White House has repeatedly asked allied countries to roll back their price controls on prescription drugs. If those nations started paying market prices for medicines invented and manufactured in the United States, it would relieve the pressure on American patients, employers, and taxpayers -- who are currently forced to fund a disproportionate share of the research and development that benefits the entire world. And it'd boost America's biotech companies and spur more job-creating research investments.