Dear editor, Concerning the Aug. 4 story about Allen Community College’s new partnership with Kansas City University to fast-track medical careers, from what I read, this fast-tracking will do away with the need for MCAT,…

My family went to Venice, Italy, this summer. We stood in the world’s first ghetto, where guards locked in Jews each night. There was a man sitting at a table with pamphlets in support of…

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two miles from ground zero, but by some miracle, I survived.…

Allen County Commissioner David Lee worries “big government” is preventing private practice physicians from setting up office. “We’re forcing doctors to have to come and work in these organizations whether they want to or not.…

President Donald Trump recently acknowledged what American farmers have known for decades: immigrant labor is indispensable to our agricultural economy. From tending crops to processing poultry and dairy, immigrants make it possible for American families…

I knew what exile felt like, but nothing had prepared me to experience it again in my 70s. I was 26 the first time I was forced to flee a dictator. It was in 1975,…

The U.S. economy desperately needs more electricity. Demand is projected to outstrip supply in the coming years, largely due to data centers powering artificial intelligence. That leaves the government no choice: To avoid an energy…

Imagine a group of 5-year-olds playing a board game. The rules are clear, the goal is fair, and one child edges ahead — until, suddenly, another child starts losing. That’s when the trouble begins. “He…

You know that oat milk doesn’t come from a cow, right? Right? Of course you do.  In fact, I feel pretty sure that all but a few misguided souls know that oat milk — or…

You’d think one company happy with President Trump’s aluminum tariffs would be Alcoa, the American aluminum producer. Well, think again, and the reason is a case study in the perverse effects of trade protectionism. About…