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  • I Started a Business Last Year. Now I’m Getting Crushed
    I opened an online storefront last year, even though everyone told me not to. An investor friend warned me…
    by Corissa Steiner, guest essay for The New York Times / October 6, 2026

  • Buc-ee’s, the world’s biggest mini-mart, is creeping closer to Wichita. That’s close enough
    If you’ve never experienced Buc-ee’s, you don’t know what you’re missing. But it’s getting closer. Imagine a freeway service…
    by Dion Lefler – Wichita Eagle / October 5, 2026

  • The dog versus cat rivalry is age-old. But something is shifting
    The rivalry between dog people and cat people has existed for as long as animals have been domesticated. If…
    by Robert Granader, guest essay for The Washington Post / October 5, 2026

  • Cutting SNAP doesn’t cut hunger
    About 1 in 5 Kansas children face hunger. Here in Allen County, over 1,300 people participate in the Supplemental…
    by Tim Stauffer, Register managing editor / October 2, 2026

  • I thought things had gotten better. The Cornell case shows how bad they really are.
    Four weeks ago, I dropped off my younger daughter to start her freshman year at college. Parents of incoming…
    by Jennifer Weiner, guest essay for The New York Times / October 1, 2026

  • Does Rev. Adam Hamilton know what’s the matter with Kansas?
    Political challengers tend to their day jobs when they can, but the Rev. Adam Hamilton has an unusual professional…
    by E.J. Dionne Jr., guest opinion for The New York Times / September 29, 2026

  • Masks hide us and shape us
    In his 1891 essay “The Critic as Artist,” Oscar Wilde notes that anonymity through disguise offers a certain freedom…
    by Peter Marty, The Christian Century / September 23, 2026

  • It’s time to get salty with Jerry Moran over Canada tariffs
    You could say that Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran is rubbing salt in the wounds of everyone struggling with the…
    by Dion Lefler – Wichita Eagle / September 22, 2026

  • Elwood’s experience with bare-knuckle fights revealing
    We’ve had a stream of visitors to the Register recently taking advantage of free tickets to this weekend’s circus…
    by Susan Lynn-Register editor / September 18, 2026

  • Rebuilding civic trust in Kansas a worthy goal
    Along with a few of my colleagues, I organize our university’s Constitution Day event around Sept. 17 — the…
    by Russell Fox, Insight Kansas / September 18, 2026

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