What comes to mind and medium
When Rodger Gerberding was a young artist, he aimed for photo-realism. He studied the magazine Favorite Monsters of Filmland and made detailed portraits of horror actors including Bela Lugosi and Lon Cheney Jr.
September 2025
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Trump is proving no friend to labor
During the 2024 election campaign, the Republican Party’s historically fraught relationship with organized labor appeared to be changing. Several influential Republicans reached out to unions, seeking to cement the loyalties of the growing ranks of working-class Americans who have been backing Donald Trump’s presidential runs and voting for other members of his party.
Forgive from the heart
One summer in the early 1970s, a young college student volunteered to serve in a summer youth program in the ghetto of a large city in Ohio. Needless to say, coming from a small town he had a lot to learn – don’t go out alone after dark, even to walk one block! The heat and humidity were brutal, but he survived and had many stories to tell.
Walk or ride
It's hard to see a yellow school bus and not think about all the hours of my childhood spent sitting on one of those hard seats with a stiff back. I hope the modern versions have a little more comfort than the utilitarian transportation I had to ride uphill both ways.From the outside, they don't look much different now that the calendar has turned to September and the wheels on the buses are going around and around every day.As one of the last stops on the bus route, I don't remember much about the ride to school.
Suit against foreign contributions ban stalls
TOPEKA — Kansas officials brought clarity to a new law that bans financial contributions from foreign nationals to campaigns for or against state constitutional amendments, a law at the center of an ongoing lawsuit.
Schwab scratches gubernatorial candidate
TOPEKA — The Kansas secretary of state relied Friday on a legal opinion issued by the attorney general to remove Republican Doug Billings from the roster of candidates running for governor.
Kelly opposes Trump's plans for state National Guard
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and more than a dozen other Democratic governors cautioned President Trump against deploying states’ National Guard.
Ex-ag secretary Glickman worries about policy hurting farmers
OVERLAND PARK — Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman pushed for deepening relationships and maintaining international growth opportunities for Kansas farmers at a meeting of state political and agricultural leaders Aug. 27.
Foster care agency's progress uncertain
TOPEKA — Kansas’ foster care agency had mediation sessions earlier this year to address deficiencies after a 2024 report revealed the state had backslid.