The 2022 legislative session is well underway and I have a lot of progress to report on the priorities I am working on for you as your state representative in Topeka. I am laser-focused on bringing jobs and opportunity back to Leavenworth.
I’m not sure if it’s the local realtors or what, but for some reason, there seems to be an emphasis in this area for people to have those perfect grassy lawns. As if you are not doing your neighborhood right if you don’t have a perfect lawn, especially in the front yard.
To the editor: Thanks to the Leavenworth Times for the article about the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. Every member of the military who has served away from home knows what it means to receive a letter from home.
They did it – that much seems obvious. But what, exactly, was the “it” that they did? China pulled off a logistically adept Olympics with very few mechanical glitches – no small affair in the pandemic era.
Sandra Day O’Connor was nervous when she joined the Supreme Court in 1981 as the nation’s first female justice. “It’s all right to be the first to do something, but I didn’t want to be the last woman on the Supreme Court,” O’Connor said in 2012.
While enjoying an overnight stay with the grandkids, I couldn’t help but notice technology also came along for some fun at Gigi and Papa’s. As much as I want to complain about it, I’m just as guilty with a cell phone which may as well be hanging around my neck.
The Canadians who have disrupted travel and trade with the U.S. and occupied downtown Ottawa for nearly three weeks have been cheered and funded by American right-wing activists and conservative politicians who also oppose vaccine mandates and the country’s liberal leader.
Some Democrats in rural Pennsylvania are afraid to tell you they’re Democrats. The party’s brand is so toxic in the small towns 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh that some liberals have removed bumper stickers and yard signs and refuse to acknowledge their party affiliation publicly.
I once had a bad habit of making broad statements about things I would never do. For example, I said that I would never have a roommate past freshman year of college, never attend a non-Ivy League school and never return to Leavenworth as an adult.