Columns

Legal-Ease: Sharing our possessions with others
An amazing aspect of living where we do is that people are usually quite generous with each other.This generosity includes sharing our possessions. Gr...
May 14th, 2022 |

Charles Thomas: Books show how unfit Trump was
Another book has come out about how fortunate America was to survive the Donald Trump presidency, books written not by some casual observer or some de...
May 13th, 2022 |

Dr. Jessica Johnson: Advice as you leave your Kansas
Commencement season is upon us as college graduates prepare to enter the “grown folks’ world” full time. Some were already “ad...
May 13th, 2022 |

David McClough: Shortsighted to forgive student loan debts
If it were not entirely predictable, one might say that the first 15 months or so of the Biden administration have been underwhelming or disappointing...
May 12th, 2022 |

Michael Graham: Americans aren’t divided on abortion; their politicians are
Why is abortion the most divisive issue in American politics? Because Americans are fundamentally compassionate and fair-minded people. They don’...
May 12th, 2022 |

Jerry Zezima: The grapes of laughs
With apologies to Elvis Presley, who is not taking requests these days, I’m a hunk of burning love, not only for my wife, Sue, who doesn’t...
May 12th, 2022 |

Holy Cow! History: The scoundrel who visited his lost leg
If there is ever a Bad Boy of American History Hall of Fame, Dan Sickles should get his own wing.He served in Congress; married a woman half his age; ...
May 10th, 2022 |

Mark Figley: Dems ignore sad truth on shootings
Violent crime continues to explode under the Biden administration as typified by an April 3 shooting spree between rival gangs in Sacramento, Californ...
May 10th, 2022 |

Leonard Pitts Jr.: It’s hard to fight from a crouch
So let’s talk about That Word.Meaning the word the political left was using to define itself until the political right got hold of it and made i...
May 8th, 2022 |

Michael Reagan: Thank God I was adopted, not aborted
Forget inflation, forget Ukraine, forget the crashing stock market.Thanks to a troublemaking leak by some jerk inside the U.S. Supreme Court, abortion...
May 7th, 2022 |