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GUEST COLUMN, Scott Schwab, Kansas Secretary of State In this busy harvest season, we want to remind Kansans to vote in the November 5 election. Municipal elections play a key role in determining leadership in your community, but voter participation is at disturbingly low levels. As part...
L&T Publisher Earl Watt When the Founders wrote the Constitution, the question of whether or not to include impeachment was hotly contested. Several reluctantly opted to include the impeachment language because, in the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin, removal from office through...
GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris The anonymous whistleblower who has upended Washington and seeks to bring down a president admits that he has no first-hand knowledge of the dealings between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. He or she says that the...
GUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet As I sat down Monday afternoon to write this opinion column, I was overwhelmed at the parallels of Trump’s Russia witch hunt and Brett Kavanaugh’s Blasey-Ford witch hunt. Both were conjured up by the progressive leftists in the Socialist-Democratic...
MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron This week has been a whirlwind – loading a rental truck, saying good-bye to dear friends, and welcoming two sons who helped unload our truck. The next morning, through some amazing circumstances, we ran into a couple we’d met in college more than fifty years...
GUEST COLUMN, Jackie Mundt, Pratt County farmer and rancher Like many children, I once dreamed of becoming President of the United States. A big, old White House and a high-power job were awe-inspiring. When I was 13 years old, President Clinton was impeached, and that shiny vision...
GUEST COLUMN, Tom Dean, Medical Doctor Health care costs too much. The U.S. spends twice as much as other wealthy nations and yet we have poorer outcomes. Patients in this country visit physicians less frequently and spend less time in hospitals than residents of other wealthy countries....
GUEST COLUMN, David Dorsey, Kansas Policy Institute It wouldn’t be a new school year without the news media running another story that there is a teacher shortage. The Kansas City Star went as far as sounding it at crisis level by headlining a story that the shortage of teachers in the...
L&T Publisher Earl Watt If you can overcome the nauseating negativity of social media, there are some key lessons we can learn from intentionally seeking out views that differ from our own. The idea that minds can be changed on social media is a pipe dream. Those who comment are the...
THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon Peter and I are packing for our annual trip again. My husband, Peter, is retired and I write, so we are able to travel now. Getting married late in life, this might have posed some problems because Peter is exactly the opposite sort of traveler...
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