Opinion

If love means never having to say you’re sorry, we’d all be in a sorry mess. Sometimes being sorry is the only means to a solution when it comes to matters of the heart.

The year 2021 was very active in bringing change to Leavenworth County government. These changes that will benefit the residents included adoption of a $50 million budget that included a reduction in the mill levy, implementation of spending priorities for the $19 million of CARES Act funding for COVID-19 relief, establishing goals for expenditure of the additional $16 million scheduled to be received from the federal government through the American Rescue Plan Act, and most recently refinancing county bonding of sales tax funds which cut the amount of interest the county will pay by $813,000 over the life of the bonds.

Give me liberty and give me death. That’s an apt update of Patrick Henry’s famous 1775 quote, considering behavior among some conservative lawmakers whose view of “liberty” places us all at risk.

America and the world will soon observe the anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. For America, the pandemic has had a huge impact. The latest figures indicate that to date about 900,000 people have died, and the pandemic is still going strong. Millions of people lost their jobs due to the economic downturn and hence have lost their homes, and thousands of small businesses have had to close because customers were staying home.

Have you ever stopped to consider the dog-human bond? It’s actually quite amazing. Two different species can connect to each other in what can be described as supernatural at times.

WASHINGTON – There is an exception to the federal government’s general inability to accomplish anything briskly. It drove the national debt past $30 trillion this past week, which only two years ago it had not been expected to accomplish until 2026.

The historical Hatfields and McCoys of West Virginia and Kentucky are probably the best or most infamous American example of a culture that destroys families and other people. It’s generally called revenge culture and it certainly seems to be rampant in certain cultures around the world today.

A third Kansas lawmaker has been arrested, accused of drinking and getting behind the wheel of a car. All three incidents occurred in the past year.