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GUEST COLUMN, Kim Baldwin, McPherson County farmer The other day Facebook reminded me that a year ago we kicked off our fall harvest season. I had posted a picture of the kids climbing into the combine with my husband, and then a picture of the four of us piled in the combine with smiles...
GUEST COLUMN, Dave Trabert, Kansas Policy Institute Property taxes assessed for the operation of local government totaled $2.7 billion in 2018 and significant differences in per-resident amounts across the counties indicate large savings opportunities – if the political will exists to...
GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris Worried about job approval ratings that lag consistently below 50 percent, President Donald Trump may be becoming too eager for international triumphs to boost them up. Facing hard stalemates in our face-offs with Iran, China, Afghanistan and North Korea, Trump...
L&T Publisher Earl Watt Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens boarded a plane Feb. 22, 1959, and they never reached their destination. The three rock stars died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, and a 1971 song by Don McLean immortalized the loss in his song,...
THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon Peter was up before anyone else — as he often is. My husband, Peter, gets up early in order to have enough time to brood before busybodies like me expect him to engage in cheerful conversation. But this morning we were staying at my parents’ cabin and...
L&T Publisher Earl Watt I’m not quite sure where the pigeons came from, and I didn’t want to know where Uncle Eddie ‘acquired’ the chicken wire, but one summer we had built a fully stocked pigeon coop in the back yard. Like many of Uncle Eddie’s summer activities, the pigeons became...
GUEST COLUMN, Michael Schneider, President of McPherson College Kylee Martin from Goodland was one of thousands of Kansas high school students considering their college options. She visited a couple of state schools. Even after receiving some great scholarships, she knew that student...
GUEST COLUMN, Larry Phillips, Kismet Just when I was refreshed, relaxed and rejuvenated after a wonderful Labor Day weekend, I received State Representative Shannon Francis’ Legislative Newsletter, and my blood began to boil again. He starts with how “the Kansas Supreme Court recently...
MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron Two thousand years ago a man uttered a phrase many of us have either said or thought to ourselves. “I do believe; help my unbelief.” Faith and belief are powerful, yet hard to define and elusive to find. In the Book of Matthew Jesus spoke nearly the same...
GUEST COLUMN, Jackie Mundt, Pratt County farmer Change is in the air. Children have grown over the summer and are starting the new school year a little more grown up. The promise of sunny, brisk days makes many of us excited to breakout hoodies and sweaters. Fall foliage soon will begin...
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GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris
It sounds oxymoronic, but those who now say they won’t vote at all [ ... ]
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