GUEST COLUMN, David Harsanyi, townhall.com The regulatory burden on people and businesses accumulates quickly. With 70,969 restrictions containing 3.2 million words, the 2019 Kansas Administrative Regulations would take the average person 180 hours to read. In Kansas, an estimated 29,409...
SAINTS PERSPECTIVE, SCCC President Brad Bennett Last weekend, as I returned from a state meeting with peer community colleges, I reviewed everything that has been happening on campus and made a mental list of what I should tackle first. Whenever I travel away from Seward County Community...
GUEST COLUMN, Merle Roberts, former Liberal resident Back in time when America was into a constitutional convention America needed a faith based system, not a religion based or other system, with which we the people could govern ourselves. Politicians in America’s government at that time...
MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron Here’s another in a series of summaries for New Testament books, which we plan to continue until Christmas. More information and content of the book will be provided each week on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/barbaran.gary We pray that the...
THE POSTSCRIPT, Carrie Classon It was time to come back from Mexico. It wasn’t because of the weather. The weather was wonderful. The nights up in the mountains were cool, and the days were warm, and sometimes, in the afternoons, a thunderstorm would roll in, and a refreshing rain would...
L&T Publisher Earl Watt How much freedom must be sacrificed in order to protect freedom? A terrible question, but for some who are so driven to keep Donald Trump from returning to the White House, there is no freedom worth saving if it means keeping Trump from being on the...
GUEST COLUMN, Kim Baldwin, Kansas Farm Bureau Late summer on our central Kansas farm has consisted of keeping our crops irrigated, checking cattle, working ground and the start of fall harvest. Since the kids are back in school, my main focus has been monopolizing large tracks of...
GUEST COLUMN, Dave Trabert, Kansas Policy Institute Some things never change – spending increases, achievement remains low, and Kansas has one of the nation’s worst productivity rankings (bang for the education buck). A dollar spent in Kansas buys a lot more than a dollar in New York or...
VOICES OF HISTORY, George Washington, Farewell address, Sept. 19, 1796 EDITOR’S NOTE — George Washington served as the first president and cautioned the country from forming political parties. While the parties formed, anyway, his warning still shares why political parties can be...
GUEST COLUMN, David Harsanyi, townhall.com For the second time in recent months, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze in the middle of a press conference, staring off in silence before being saved by an aide. The establishment media widely covered the episode -- and reasonably so,...