You do not have to care about climate change to believe that clean energy is an important and strategic resource. Solar and wind power are now cheaper than coal in many places and sometimes cheaper…

There’s a reason they call election time “the silly season.” But it doesn’t get much sillier than what’s going on with campaign finance in the Wichita City Council 1st District race. Supporters of candidate LaWanda…

For decades, Americans have been sold a slick fantasy, that if your eggs don’t slide out of a pan like a Vegas card trick, you’re doing it wrong. It began in the 1960s and 1970s,…

I was talking to a teenage girl in Afghanistan last week. She was on her laptop and I was on mine. She was explaining to me how she came to understand that women don’t have…

The elimination of around 80 positions at Gates Corporation’s Iola plant is a bitter pill to swallow. 80 families lose a wage earner, many of whom had spent decades at the facility. They’ll leave behind…

If a U.S. president was just itching to militarize the streets of a politically unfriendly American city like some blustery third-world despot, how would he go about it? First, he might start with a pretense…

You knew it was coming. As President Trump’s tariffs damage farmers and businesses across the U.S., the victims are besieging the Administration for relief. The long lines at the Commerce and Agriculture departments are the…

Strong communities don’t just happen. They rely on connection—residents knowing what’s going on, businesses reaching the customers who keep them open, and citizens having the facts to make good decisions. Local newspapers provide that connection…

The news that immigration officials can resume accepting DACA applications marks another turn in a long and exhausting legal battle over the immigration program. After a four-year hiatus, immigrants brought to the U.S. as children…

The people of Kansas — and indeed, the people of the United States of America — owe a great debt of gratitude today to a hero most have never heard of.  His name is Todd…