The news of a data center coming to Iola is garnering backlash, the most specious being that its electric demands will raise utility rates for the rest of us. That’s not the case. Vine Energy…

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to work in Chicago last month when she drove onto a street where an immigration enforcement action was in progress.  As she attempted to drive around the chaos, an…

“First they came for the Jews.” Many Americans remember that line as the beginning of a confession, offered in 1946 by Martin Niemoller and taught to schoolchildren ever since. First they came for the Jews,…

The verdict is still out whether the public will have full access to the Epstein files. That’s because it’s at the discretion of the Justice Department just how much of the federal investigation it will…

The United States government often advances its national interests by working with nasty people, and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is one of the nastiest.  It’s one thing, however regrettable, to deal reluctantly…

The Heritage Foundation debacle isn’t over. The decision of Kevin Roberts, the conservative think tank’s president, to embrace podcaster Tucker Carlson, criticize those who push back on Mr. Carlson’s Jew-baiting and friendly interview with Hitler…

As the White House toys with the no-joke prospect of actually invading Venezuela out of (understandable) ire at the government of (reprehensible) strongman Nicolas Maduro, a damning new Human Rights Watch report says that 252…

Members of the Trump administration have floated a new proposal to address the nation’s housing crisis. It’s a dud. They should stick to the basics. President Donald Trump took to Truth Social last weekend to…

When Dorothy Tobe and Mike Rosseau bought a long-vacant church building in St. John to convert into their home, they moved in to opposition from the owner of a business nearby. They needed a lawyer,…

To be honest, we were doubtful Eric Meyer of The Marion County Record and others would ever be compensated for the emotional and physical toll of having law enforcement officers ransack his newspaper and home…