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I was performing a musical program on Kansas history last week to a group of 3rd graders. While talking about our state’s tumultuous birth in 1861 and the…
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Maybe you’re one of the many Kansans who don’t pay an awful lot of attention to the Legislature. We have busy lives, and the idea of wading through news…
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Of all the many lines in the movie “The Wizard of Oz” that are regularly quoted by us cartoonist and commentary types, the one that is probably most often…
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One day years ago during a frantic morning, I was darting around and doing the usual scramble-dance of a person with a tight schedule who is running late…
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Ah, yes—delayed gratification. I remember it well.Back in the days before we live on 5-hour Energy drinks, triple-shot Starbucks lattes and the…
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We’re in the throes of a kind of “March madness” that most likely will not be going away come April. It is a sort of madness that has a much more profound…
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Driving down Douglas this past Tuesday I couldn’t help noticing a forelorn figure, shaggy head down, slumped despondently on a street-side bench. His…
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Surely no one is surprised that parents are very concerned about the proposed boundary changes in Wichita’s school district. Schools are about our…
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There’s a bill before our Kansas legislature to make the Cain Terrier the official State Dog of the State of Kansas. I applaud our esteemed deliberative…