Any time we expect God to be something or do something based on our own ideas, we create an imaginary god. The world is full of these false, imaginary gods — born from misunderstood, misinformed or incomplete views of God.
Sixteen months from now, Kansans will vote on a state constitutional amendment that will, if passed, institute popular elections for state Supreme Court justices. This possibility disturbs many Kansans, and it’s worth trying to understand why.Today, Kansas has a mostly merit-based system for choosing Supreme Court justices; while the governor makes the appointment, they are required to choose from list of candidates prepared by a non-partisan committee of lawyers.
During the years of being dad's caretaker, he’d tell me nearly every day how glad he was to be in his own home - to work in the yard and visit with neighbors. Some of this repetition was from dementia, but mostly because he was truly happy.Early one spring, Mother Nature, as she does every year, played havoc on dad's early blooming lily plants.
Is our vision for America shrinking? What are the children in school these days learning about our homeland? I grew up knowing that I lived in a great nation, maybe even the greatest in history. As this young country nears celebrating 247 years of independence, is our country still marching forward or shrinking backward?The central premise of the Declaration of Independence was that all people have the power to govern ourselves.
It’s been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Apparently, private prison company CoreCivic never got the memo.Earlier this year, CoreCivic announced plans to re-open its shuttered Leavenworth jail as an immigration detention facility.
Perhaps no American city better understands the dedication it takes to operate secure facilities for the benefit of public safety than Leavenworth. It’s one of the reasons CoreCivic has been proud to be part of this community for more than 30 years.
The Trump administration has warned that several groups want to take many things away from white, working-class Americans: their jobs, their belief that there are only two genders, and their right to go to libraries with books that exclude almost everyone except them.The administration usually refers to these “others” with collective nouns. Immigrants, LGBTQs, minorities.
Leavenworth is a city of prisons.The area is home to five separate facilities, including a federal penitentiary, a state prison, and the U.S. military’s only maximum security prison.
I visited a culinary school recently as part of a stakeholder advocacy training through American Farm Bureau’s Partners in Advocacy Leadership (PAL) program.My PAL classmates and I gave a presentation about our farms and involvement in agriculture to first-year culinary students. Each of us was asked to bring some unique goodies from our home states.
Kevin Stone, executive director and CEO of the National Association of County Engineers, recently wrote that big business is attempting to raise the allowable weight limits for trucks on our highways. He says that the new limits “...