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This past week I returned from one of the best weeks of the year, the American Farm Bureau Convention and Annual Meeting. It is truly something I look forward to each year and a highlight…

That baseball is in serious need of change isn’t really in dispute. Even the most rabid fans grumble that the game is stagnant and one dimensional, sorely missing the strategies and nuances that in days…

The empty nest stage is the time in parents’ lives when their last child has left the home.  Some think “empty nest” is a negative term. Others believe that parenting does not end when their…

BEIJING (AP) — China today said it has revoked the press credentials of three reporters for the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal over a headline for an opinion column deemed racist by the government.…

Bill Owens died a week ago. He was passionate about hunting and fishing, cherished every opportunity to be outdoors. For many years I lived near Bill in south Iola. Charlie Turley was across the alley…

It is with great sadness that I announce that I will be leaving Tri-Valley at the end of January and therefore this will be my last column.  I tendered my resignation in order to assume…

Many readers will be glad to see “Olive Again” by Elizabeth Strout, a sequel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning “Olive Kitteridge” which also became an HBO series.  The earlier novel explored the relationships of people in…

The Kansas Forest Service is offering low-cost conservation tree and shrub seedlings for purchase again this year.  These seedlings are to be used in conservation plantings, such as home/livestock windbreaks, living snow fences, Christmas tree…

Americans have a fascination for conspiracy theories, particularly those involving a presidential assassination. In the novel “Assassin of Shadows,” author Lawrence Goldstone uses perhaps the least known presidential assassination, that of William McKinley, as a…

Well, here’s something new — President Donald Trump, in reversing his own decision to attack multiple targets in Iran in retaliation for the downing of a U.S. drone, exhibited a surprising level of restraint late…