The USD 231 board of education clearly views its patrons as giant piggy banks with duct tape across their mouths. They certainly don’t treat them as living, breathing people or as constituents. We’re all simply robots who should not be …

It’s always difficult to endorse candidates; everyone who runs for office does so for love of community and the willingness to serve. In that respect, they are all winners.
So when we endorse, it’s much like trying to select the …

Although the majority of the government entities apply a common sense approach to Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) requests and costs; an unfortunate few use KORA fees as a barrier to transparency, and there is currently no recourse for citizens who …

After an executive session last week, council members offered motions to change the city’s salary ordinance, which sets salaries for city employees, and removed the city administrator Cheryl Harrison-Lee’s position from the ordinance.
When council members retreated behind closed doors, …

With less than a month to go before the April 2 general election, it’s time for voters to get informed. If they haven’t already, voters should be using the next several weeks to acquaint themselves with the candidates that will …

Southwest Johnson County appears to have weathered the storm – in more ways than one. Yes, the latest rounds of the Blizzard of Oz have been harrowing and disconcerting, but we survived.
While grocery store shelves ran almost dry, the …

A bill in the Kansas House Education Committee would require teachers to do something they should already be doing – teaching students to ask questions.
The bill, HB 2306, would require schools to include evidence against climate change in science …

Black History Month collides with the idea of the Great American Melting Pot.
Black History Month isn’t necessary but the contributions of black Americans, as well as some other ethnic groups, for decades were not included in history books. We …