Opinion

It’s hard to imagine waking up and going to work on payday only to find you have less money than you started with at the beginning of the pay period. That’s the reality many farmers are facing as fall harvest enters full swing in Kansas.

There is vandalism going on in our country. I am not talking about gang logos painted on buildings and train cars.

In today’s polarized political climate, few constitutional provisions are invoked as frequently — and are as misunderstood — as the First Amendment. From social media bans to campus protests, Americans often claim their “free speech rights” are being violated.

Malcolm Gladwell made a career off of giving people a quantifiable number to aim toward when seeking to become experts at something. Gladwell was not the first to identify that time and effort are necessary to become really good at something.

The Union Pacific (UP), Leavenworth's railroad, and the Norwalk Southern Railway (NS), one of two Class 1 freight railroads serving the eastern U.S., seek to merge. If allowed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB), this marriage would result in the first Atlantic to Pacific, ocean to ocean rail line in U.S.