To help rural communities, Kansans and their lawmakers will need to do more than the inadequate broadband funds approved by the Legislature recently. In Topeka and nationwide, voters and their elected officials need to understand…

As the new coronavirus spreads, it has exposed a variety of societal vulnerabilities. For example, giant cities have seen how their long-touted lifestyle — packing more and more people into less and less space —…

More than 20 million K-12 students across the country are at home today due to COVID-19 virus control measures.  While the virus didn’t arrive as rapidly in Kansas in as some other states, all public…

A small city in Kansas is determined to prove The Onion wrong. Folks in Emporia weren’t laughing when the satirical paper named it “best town to escape from” in 2017. In fact, the “brain drain”…

LAHARPE — When it comes to rural broadband internet access, Kansas is the envy of the nation. “We are light years ahead of most other states,” notes Shekinah Bailey, a field representative with the USDA’s…