The Leavenworth High School JROTC national drill team champion Cavalry Angels recently visited Sen. Jeff Pittman at the Kansas State Capitol. They toured the building and were presented a tribute from the Kansas State Senate for their accomplishment. SUBMITTED BY HOLLY PITTMAN
Aida M. Dozier was born in Leavenworth on Aug.
MEXICO CITY – Decades ago, Mexican activists drove women into the United States to terminate their pregnancies at clinics. Now it’s women in the U.S. who are facing more challenges to accessing abortion services and again Mexican activists are stepping up to offer support.
NEW YORK – Donald Trump plans to build 2,300 luxury homes at his Doral golf resort in the Miami area, part of a flurry of recent moves to revive a family business suffering from the one-two punch of a divisive presidency and coronavirus shutdowns.
Jury selection began Thursday in the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights. The federal indictment unsealed in May alleges Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J.
President Biden on Jan. 11 stood before a national TV audience to address the right to vote. What we saw and heard was a diatribe against the 74,216,154 U.S. citizens who voted against him. It was a fullthroated denunciation of 46.9% of citizens who disagreed with his policies.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans for the first time disapproving of his handling of the presidency in the face of an unrelenting pandemic and roaring inflation, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Dear Annie: I spent my early childhood years with a loving foster family, and today, at age 75, I have a great relationship with my foster brother. I lived with my biological family from age 7 until I left for college.
Let me begin with an apology. I realize readers might view what I’ve written as hurtful. And they might see my ideas as unnecessarily divisive. That’s what the student editor of the Emory Law Journal called an essay by University of San Diego law professor Larry Alexander, a self-described conservative who rejects the prevailing academic consensus around race. Most scholars attribute high rates of poverty and incarceration among African Americans to racism, pointing especially to the continued effects of slavery and legalized segregation. But Alexander blames these problems on the dissolution of two-parent Black families, which he roots in Great Society welfare programs.
Over the course of the past two years, as COVID-19 violently extinguished nearly 850,000 American lives, I’ve read about the strain the pandemic has placed on our doctors and nurses. But I did not fully appreciate the fraying rope that is our health care system until last month, when both my elderly parents got COVID-19.