It's hard to imagine waking up and going to work on payday only to find you have less money than you started with at the beginning of the pay period. That's the reality many farmers are facing as fall harvest enters full swing in Kansas.
In recent decades, the increasing size and weight of pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles has made the nation’s streets much more dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists, and all others in or near a roadway who aren’t sitting in a big, heavy vehicle themselves. Weak traffic laws, laxly enforced, prioritize driving over all other uses of our roadways and multiply the danger.
Before the United States began vaccinating all infants at birth with the hepatitis B vaccine in 1991, about 18,000 children every year contracted the virus before their 10th birthday — about half of them at birth. About 90% of that subset developed a chronic infection.
In 1979, I bought my first parcel of farmland. It was near Tribune, and I was a proud new landowner.
Every spring, I venture to Gove County in western Kansas to witness one last connection to our wild shortgrass prairie heritage: the mating dance of the lesser prairie chicken. As the executive director for Audubon of Kansas, we host an annual prairie chicken festival that attracts people from all over the world to see this iconic prairie grouse species.
A directive from the Trump administration has many worrying: What will happen during the next few weeks to the history on display at the five Kansas locations managed by the National Park Service?
Magistrate Judge Ron Sylvester’s story about the need to eliminate cash bonds in nonviolent cases begins with two QuikTrip hot dogs, one actual dog, and a man with mental health and addiction issues struggling to survive.
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.
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.
IOLA — Nathan Fawson is a man under fire.