Despite all the doomsayers out there writing obituaries for the nation’s newspaper industry, 150 million Americans — two out of three adults — read a local newspaper last week.Newspaper Association of America research from 2011 by Scarborough USA indicates almost 70 percent of your ...
As a youngster my dad used to read two newspapers daily. His newspapers of choice were the Kansas City Star and Denver Post.Both arrived on the same day and both contained the latest news from that date in history. The doodlebug or jitney brought the two papers from KC, 358 miles to the east, ...
To the editor:One of the high points of my year is working on the annual United Way fundraising campaign. I enjoy being a volunteer for a cause that sees immediate life-changing results. We come together as a county to support 20 local agencies as we tackle difficult problems. So many of our ...
To the editor:Gov. Brownback again has demonstrated poor judgment and a lack of due diligence in attempting to implement the ACA (Obama Care), which he promised to protect Kansas from while campaigning.Accenture, the company to which Brownback awarded the K-MED (now called KEES) project, has ...
Every 10 years, the Kansas Legislature is required to redraw boundaries for all congressional, legislative and State Board of Education districts. This is necessary as populations shift significantly over the course of a decade. Every ten years, like clockwork, this exercise becomes so muddled ...
WANT MORE?Read more about the Tonganoxie High football team’s hectic week and get other tidbits from the team’s opener on The Mirror’s sports blog, Sports Supplement.Imagine being a football player preparing for the first game of the season.There are just a few precious practices left to ...
To the editor:Thank you to the Magnificent Seven, an open letter to the staff of the Tonganoxie Public Library.When Royce Kitts resigned as our director in June we knew we would need to rely on you to fill the gap until we could select and hire a new director. And you did not disappoint ...
To the editor:As a grandmother in charge of the care of her grandchildren after school, I feel compelled to address the parking/pickup/dropoff at the elementary school. I have raised 2 children of my own, so I understand and even expected confusion and chaos the first week of school and was not ...
It seems people outside agriculture routinely try to define the family farm. In our contemporary society this means people one or two generations removed from the land who live in sprawling suburbia.Today, men and women whose great-grandfathers or grandfathers worked the fields with mules and ...
According to the U.S. Department of Education, only a third of Kansas students are proficient in reading and roughly one out of four are functionally illiterate. You might expect that education officials would welcome an opportunity to examine what other states are doing to address these ...
