Recently, a very large white oak tree had to be removed from Leavenworth National Cemetery because it was in decline. The arborist that cut it said that he counted at least 160 rings and that the tree would have been about 25 years old when the cemetery was opened in 1886.
Dear Amy: My stepdaughter, “Serena,” and her husband, “Ned,” have two small children, ages 2 and 4. They also both have demanding, stressful jobs. During the pandemic, in order to help out, I offered to cook dinner four nights a week for her family.
In 2008, the overwhelmingly white state of Iowa was Barack Obama’s unlikely launching pad to become the nation’s first Black president. Fourteen years later, Iowans aren’t showing a similar embrace for the woman running to become its first Black governor.
With the Russian military in retreat from around Kyiv and facing condemnation for brutal tactics, harsh political repression at home and the economy buffeted by Western sanctions, adversaries and allies alike are raising the same question about President Vladimir Putin: Can he hold onto power?
Many Kansas Republicans likely guffawed in disbelief when Gov. Laura Kelly recently insisted she was “a major local-control advocate.” The image of Democrats as favoring big government programs, with Republicans fighting to keep government small and local, is deeply entrenched. The language of the state GOP, presenting Kelly’s emergency orders during the pandemic as examples of “one-size-fitsall” overreach, employs this stereotype expertly.
To the editor: The 1619 Project is not real history. It has a few facts in it to try and camouflage the propaganda that it is.
Last Mile Food Rescue in Cincinnati started shopping in November for a refrigerated box truck to move perishable donations from food retailers to distribution sites. The purchase would take some of the pressure off overstretched volunteers, who would have to make three or more runs in their cars to haul as much food as a single truckload.
Many years ago, as I drove to my denomination’s assembly in Lindsborg, Kansas, I made a stop in Hillsboro, where my grandfather was born and raised. Way back in 1965 or so, Grandpa Fischer took me and my sister to the grave of his father, our great-grandfather. Now so many decades later, like a bad penny, I searched for this place of encounter.
A missile hit a train station where thousands of people had flocked to flee in eastern Ukraine, killing 50 people Friday, Ukrainian authorities said, while warning they expect to find more evidence of war crimes in areas abandoned by Russian troops.
Dear Amy: Through some unusual circumstances too complicated to explain here, I met another man about seven and a half years ago. We first met for a sexual encounter and soon became lovers.