Month: July 2020

MORAN — EDP Renewables, parent company of the Prairie Queen Wind Farm north of Moran, recently donated $5,000 to the Moran PRIDE/Thrive group to support the Moran Food Distribution program. Kevin Cook, site operations manager…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Sedgwick County Commission has no immediate plans to follow a White House task force report that lays out additional measures officials should take to slow the spread of COVID-19. A…

Dear editor, I wanted to put in my two cents worth about the upcoming primary race for the Second District Congressional seat.  I taught with Jake LaTurner’s mother before I retired and know the family…

Early on, the United States’ experiment using three branches of government to check and balance one another could have taken a ruinous turn. Before leaving the White House in defeat in 1801, John Adams sought…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Republicans in Congress are expected to meet today with President Donald Trump at the White House on the next COVID-19  aid package as the crisis many hoped would have improved has…

Questions have followed U.S. Rep. Steve Watkins from the campaign trail to Washington, D.C. We don’t have the time or inclination to wade through all of the allegations here. Suffice to say that reporters dug…

As badly as the U.S. has mishandled the pandemic, there’s been one bright spot: Despite historic unemployment, the poverty rate in America hasn’t significantly increased. This happy paradox is mostly due to the $600 that…

Thursday was an absolute slugfest for the AA Iola Indians against Yates Center at Riverside Park. Iola scored 28 runs in the doubleheader, with neither game reaching the fifth inning due to the run-rules in…

Thursday’s Results Jr. Bitty Ball Iola Register 10 Iola Transmission 8 Hits for Register: L. Ilimaleota, 3 1b, 1 2b; J. Wilson, 4 1b; R. Smith, 1 1b; K. Hufferd, 2 1b; J. Michael, 3…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Remember when the Chiefs couldn’t have nice things? Now, they apparently want all of the nice things. The team that used to be awful, then decent, then appeared to be peaking…