A new group in Allen County aims to promote thoughtful dialogue on current issues and bring intriguing guest speakers to Iola. The Allen County Blue Dot Club — a monthly gathering of pro-democracy citizens — is…

Dear editor, Patrick Schmidt is smart, qualified, and committed to making life better for Kansas families. Patrick graduated from Tufts University with a major in international relations and served as an intelligence officer in the…

Dear editor, Rural Kansas needs the kind of representation Alana Cloutier can give us. She and her husband Paul moved to Humboldt several years ago to help with A Bolder Humboldt, a rural economic revitalization…

Now that he’s retired from teaching school for 40 years, Humboldt’s Mike Bruner has decided to run for office.  On Wednesday, Bruner filed to run for the state senate. With the filing deadline on June…

Admitting he’s a longshot, Mike Bruner said Tuesday he was on his way to Topeka today to file to run for the 12th District seat in the Kansas Senate, held for the last two terms…

LAHARPE — With six days left before Tuesday’s general election, contenders for two Allen County Commission seats stated their positions at a forum hosted by Allen County Farm Bureau. The five appeared Tuesday evening in…

Mike Bruner envisions an Allen County commission that is more accessible, more mobile, more civic-minded, and more in touch with the needs of its constituents. To this end, Bruner, who is challenging current commissioner Jerry…