While strolling through Denver Botanic Gardens this spring, I noticed a memorial bench with a curious bronze plaque inscription: “Marilyn Hickle Shaw — “All mushrooms are edible … some only once.” Did Marilyn actually die…

On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.  The accident was caused…

District court clerks are the workhorses of the state’s court system. They handle the bulk of the court’s day-to-day work and interact frequently with the public. They are good people doing good and often difficult…

Even at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, you likely will not find a physician without opinions about one of its most prominent alumni, Dr. Marty Makary, the former chair of gastrointestinal surgery at Hopkins…

Republicans used to criticize “sue and settle” tactics for changing federal policy outside of the democratic process, but the Trump administration is taking the practice to a new extreme. President Donald Trump “settled” his own…

Maybe you heard the yelps echoing from the hallways of Kansas schools last week as a software outage essentially paused academic work. No quizzes. No assignments. No grading. No video tutorials. And no sense of…

Sen. Bill Cassidy’s defeat in Saturday’s Republican primary in Louisiana will be covered as evidence of President Donald Trump’s grip over the party.  Cassidy voted to convict Trump after his second impeachment following Jan. 6,…

Two statements Thursday evening convinced me I should vote “no” in the Aug. 4 primary election on whether Kansas should change its Constitution on how the seven seats on the Kansas Supreme Court are decided.…

This year brims with opportunities for Democrats.  The president’s party typically loses seats in the midterms, and President Trump’s approval ratings are an abysmal 36%.  Kansas Democrats are fired up because popular Johnson County pastor…

My son Rakan was 5 years old when I first said the word “cancer” to a doctor. They looked at me the way doctors sometimes look at mothers, as if I were afraid of my…