If you live near a walnut tree, there’s no escaping hearing the hard plunking sound of falling nuts this time of year. There’s also no avoiding the dark stains on the streets coming from walnuts ...

What made America great? Why did one politician campaign for president with the implied slogan that America was (no longer) great? What was his strategy to make America great again? The Great Red Hat ...

This has been a hard week for the Governing Body with the sudden passing of Councilman Scott Roybal. Scott loved serving our residents as a member of City Council. His colleagues appreciated how he ...

The number of uninsured children in Kansas has risen to 51,000, the highest rate in over a decade. Reasons for the increase include a lack of awareness of low-cost options and complex paperwork for ...

In the early days of the internet and online publication, many of us in the news media saw a great opportunity to bring our communities together and improve our connections with readers through the ...

Ben Johnson didn’t just leave breadcrumbs that Braxton Jones’ standing as the Chicago Bears left tackle was potentially a short-term proposition. He outlined things with reflective road tape. In ...

Baseball’s regular season is a study in contradictions. It goes on forever, but when it finally ends, it seems like it went by in the blink of an eye. Now comes the delicious part: the start of the ...

According to Merriam-Webster, there’s a new viral word out there. It’s “enshittification.” Get your minds out of the gutter. It’s a noun and refers to “when a digital platform is made worse for users ...

Last April in Stewartville, due to budget cuts, the school board eliminated a few programs and some staff positions. One of the programs that they cut was gymnastics. I am a senior at Stewartville ...

In my favorite class I’ve taken at UNC, History 880: Readings in the Global History of Capitalism, a dozen grad students and I plowed through thick monographs on economic history and theory every week ...

You would be excused if you aren’t too aware that a city of Tucson general election is coming up Nov. 4. The excitement is pretty low. In fact, it’s so low that even a free barbeque dinner Monday ...

A sign marks an entry to the Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii island in 2022. We have 187,000 wooden homes that will be damaged or destroyed even in a Category 1 hurricane. We do not have a single ...