Opinion

Kansas City regional business leaders don’t care whether the Chiefs or the Royals play in Missouri or Kansas as long as they don’t leave the metropolitan area.That was the main message Wednesday for an online presentation featuring top executives from four organizations that have membership straddling the border. The presentation came just days before the teams face a deadline from Kansas on its proposal to build new stadiums for both teams.“We get this question a lot,” said Tim Cowden, president and CEO of the Kansas City Area Development Council.

Dear Sen. Moran:It’s me again, writing another of the no doubt thousands of letters and emails and texts that you’ve received over the past month, ever since the House of Representatives approved — by a one-vote margin — President Trump’s beloved One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Fourth of July is considered the midway point of the summer. I hate to break it to our kids, families and teachers – you are on the downhill side of summer.

It’s all come down to this.The U.S. Senate will vote soon on a gargantuan tax and spending package that will rip health care coverage from thousands of Kansans and put our rural hospitals at grave risk of closure.The numbers boggle the mind.

It was bound to happen. I should have expected it.Last month, I wrote a paragraph of errors in a Times story.

In a country flooded by a never-ending wave of talking heads, pundits and fiery social media posts, two bipartisan former governors said the solution to America’s political gridlock may be more talking.But former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, and former Montana Gov.

June is the month that tests my schedule and patience as we await the start of wheat harvest. For years my replies to a variety of invitations and requests have always defaulted to something to the effect of, “That’s June, so if we’re harvesting wheat we won’t be able to.” June is the one month out of the entire year where I fully exercise being noncommittal.Our June days are determined by whether the wheat is ready or not.

In general, I have always thought that riding a bicycle is a good idea when it comes to our health, assuming, of course, that you don’t get hit by a vehicle or have some other mishap that injures you. In a recent article in the KC Star from Health News, they write that there are studies that suggest that biking may also lower your risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.“Researchers analyzed data on nearly 480,000 people participating in the UK Biobank, a long-term health study of people living in England, Scotland, and Wales.”“Biking regularly for transportation appears to lower risk of dementia by 19% and Alzheimer’s by 22%, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.” I don’t know if that is a significant amount, but at least it did not show an increase in those diseases due to biking in that study group.Apparently, regular biking might help increase the size of the brain region important for memory.