Kansas may be better known these days for wingnuts like Republican House Speaker Mike O'Neal, but longtime Observer contributor Richard L. Fricker discovered some...

BY SHARON MARTIN People who have never taken an education class want to fix education. They want to fix it, all right! They will pare...

Longtime Observer correspondent Richard L. Fricker hits the road for his annual summer driving tour, this time soaking up life along the highways and...

BY KAREN WEBB Everyone from Mike Huckabee to the raving Texan, Rep. Louie Gohmert, say we should not talk about guns at all because the...

BY SHARON MARTIN In a single day, two intelligent women in separate phone conversations told me they were disgusted with politics and didn’t see what...