Opinion

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Opinion: Kansas Speaks: Gov. Kelly still on top

The Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University has released the report from their 2025 Kansas Speaks public opinion survey. This survey, conducted each fall since 2009, covers questions from satisfaction with political officials and institutions to attitudes on public ...

Opinion: Broken windows policy belongs at top

The sound you heard was windows being smashed at the East Wing. The sound you did not hear was questions from officials paid to monitor what happens to a National Heritage Site. The White House is owned by the American people, not any current inhabitant. It’s true that other presidents ...

Letter to the editor: Campaign conversations

To the editor: If you, like me, are talking with others about the City Commission and school board candidates, let’s make those conversations factual. At a benefit for Van Go I heard that an individual associated with a neighborhood “excluded the only currently serving City Commission ...

Letter to the editor: A message on hunger

To the editor: I saw the opened bag of chips before I heard her voice. As the woman lifted her half gallon of milk onto Just Food’s checkout table where I volunteer every Friday, she must have felt as if she’d been caught with her hand in the cookie jar. She said, “I am sorry. I am just ...

Opinion: Believe me when I tell you about Washington

Believe me when I tell you Washington is going through stages of grief at the sudden demolition of the White House East Wing. The wreckage looks like a crime scene, with President Donald Trump’s thumbprints on it. He didn’t ask or tell people, he just destroyed a sacred structure that ...

Opinion: Conservatives conserve; Trump destroys

A recent poll found 65% of Americans considered President Donald Trump to be conservative or very conservative. That I do not understand. Trump is the opposite of a conservative. A conservative conserves, maintaining what is good and just and building upon it. Donald Trump is no ...