The pendulum swung: From Attila the Hun and self-proclaimed “Decider,” to President Hamlet, the professorial equivocator. From the inarticulate blurter of malapropisms (“misunderestimated,” etc.) to the orator who thinks he can change the world by giving speeches. After the belligerent, ...

Within the past week, several thousand young men and women received their degrees from Kansas University, and more than 600 students at Lawrence High School and Free State High School received their high school diplomas.Today, one of this nation’s most pressing problems is the unemployment ...

In the past few days, colleges and universities around the country sent tens of thousands of graduating seniors off to begin their lives as adults. At many of these universities, including Kansas University, there were also commissioning ceremonies at which young men and women who had ...

There are a number of individuals in Lawrence who do a number of relatively small things that help make Lawrence a special place. These individuals do not seek publicity but they are deeply interested in the welfare of the community and in their various ways, make a significant, meaningful and ...

This year’s legislative session has come to a fitting end.  Revenues in April fell substantially from those that had been projected; Moody’s bond rating service downgraded Kansas bonds, making it more expensive for the state to borrow in the future; the governor blamed the revenue ...

A thick fog of smoke filled our valley, drifting eastward from grass fires in the Flint Hills. It was a tribute to the magnitude of that annual enterprise, a tradition that goes back to the days of Indians and buffalo and is in conflict with today’s concerns about pollution and global ...