Happy Kansas Day fellow Kansans! I don’t know about you, but I absolutely love Kansas. I love the wheat fields, KU basketball and cottonwood trees. Today the Sunflower State turns 153 years old.  I am…

One core concept at the heart of the Health Insurance Marketplace under the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) is that everyone should contribute to the best of their ability for their own healthcare. Low- and moderate-income…

In the look for more jobs coming Allen County’s way, they probably won’t be in manufacturing. Or construction. Or retail.In fact, Allen County’s new hospital is the best bet for the area’s economic growth. Healthcare,…

Making the best of a bad situation takes tact. Kansas’ Chief Justice Lawton Nuss accepted with equanimity rejection by the Kansas Legislature to forego his annual address before the entire body. Instead, he spoke before…

Jacob Riebel and Levi Meiwes, a couple of Iola kids, want legal status for chickens in Iola. Iola Needs Chickens is the name of their campaign, which they will outline in detail for city council…

In politics today, the Republican Party has two factions, conservatives and ultra-conservatives, but outsiders tend to lump them together.In most cases, the word ultra means extreme. An ultra-marathon, for example, can be twice the distance…

It first dawned on Sam Polk he might not deserve a $3.6 million bonus as a hedge fund trader when he realized he did not produce a product or provide a service.“I didn’t really do…

Iola and Iola Industries each recently increased support of the Allen County Economic Development Committee from $15,000 in 2013 to $20,000 for this year.A week ago Allen County commissioners decided the $10,000 they contributed last…

Less than a year ago, U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts attended the ground-breaking ceremonies in Manhattan for the much-anticipated $1.15 billion National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, otherwise known as NBAF.The facility will provide an estimated 350…

The legalization of marijuana in Colorado doesn’t mean potheads will be moving there in droves.Availability has never been the issue.Rather, it’s the enforcement of marijuana use and the incarceration of abusers that have created an…