At over 230 deaths, Helene is now America’s deadliest hurricane since Katrina ripped a hole in the Superdome in 2005. For inland areas supposedly immune from catastrophic storm surges, mountainous “climate havens” like Asheville, North Carolina, were startled to bear the brunt of ...

Most of those who watch politics focus on various national and state political contests, and that’s reasonable. Yet how many of us regularly interact with agents of the national or state governments, enforcing those state or national laws? The answer: not many. For most Kansans, it is ...

With a coveted Taylor Swift endorsement rolling out earlier this month, everyone seems to be talking about the engagement of young voters this election cycle. Young people — typically, this is measured by those under the age of 35 — are often touted as apathetic and not caring about ...

While the 2024 presidential election may be more than a month and half away, it is time for Kansans to make a voting plan and check their voter registration status. This is because Kansas has chosen not to implement same-day voter registration. For the most part, election law is state law. ...

For over a century, Johnson County residents voted for Republican presidential candidates. Even during periods of Democrat strength, including Franklin Roosevelt’s landslide victory in 1932 and Lyndon Johnson’s overwhelming triumph in 1964, the county stayed true to its Republican ...

Citius, Altius, Fortius. The original Olympic motto — translated: Faster, Higher, Stronger. — was never in more splendid display as the past few weeks in Paris. If the Olympic spirit was a religion, the athletes were its evangelists. Time after time, we were moved by sheer will or ...