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December 10th, 2023
L&T Opinions Page
THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon   My husband, Peter, likes buying in bulk.  Peter hates paying shipping fees. He never wants to run out of anything and he loves a bargain. This is why we buy coffee in enormous bags, crackers by the case, nuts and raisins ten pounds at a time, rice in...

L&T Publisher Earl Watt   Former Republican/Democratic New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been spending millions on his self-funded campaign despite missing the first two Democratic presidential primaries, and his infusion in the race almost assures not only a brokered convention but...

GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris   I have never seen a debate where a candidate was more soundly beaten than was Mike Bloomberg Wednesday night. He got clobbered. He never answered the charges against him. His promise to only release his tax returns after a third of the country has voted on...

GUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet   I would think many of our farmers across America have now been informed about how stupid they are, according to Democratic candidate for President Michael Bloomberg. But, I believe what he actually said needs clarification and thus, applied to various...

GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris   Stats just released by the International Energy Agency show that the Trump administration has produced the biggest drop in carbon emissions in the world between 2018 and 2019! Despite his rhetorical attacks on the climate change movement, President Donald Trump...

GUEST COLUMN, Glen Brunkow, Kansas Farm Bureau   This past week I was lucky enough to be allowed to attend the Young Farmers and Ranchers Leaders Conference in Manhattan. I say lucky enough because I have come to grips with the realization that I am no longer a young farmer or rancher. I...

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron   One stop on our tour of the Holy Land last summer was a village that was home to Jesus most of his young life. In his day, Nazareth was small (though archeologists today debate its size) and somewhat isolated. Today it is the capital of and largest city in the...

GUEST COLUMN, Shannon Francis, 125th District Representative   Reporting mechanism for trains blocking roadways The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) created a reporting mechanism for trains blocking roadways. The blocked crossing incident reporter is available to the public where they...

L&T Publisher Earl Watt   Kansas has an overactive judiciary because of the worst possible method of appointing justices, and that system provided one of the worst interpretations in the history of free people. Somehow, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled since the Kansas Constitution does...

THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon   The roof fell in on the church I started attending. The collapse occurred after I’d been coming only a couple of weeks. While I have not always been a regular churchgoer, I thought this was kind of an over-the-top response to my unexpected appearance in...