Opinion

Childhood links remain
By Rae Sedgwick
April 4, 2012
“I love you little, I love you big; I love you like a little pig.”
The pests of spring
April 4, 2012
Really, spring is the most beautiful season of the year. You look out at your backyard and it is a lush carpet.
A Look Back: TED talks
By Gene Young
March 29, 2012
I have discovered one of the biggest changes in communications since the invention of the printing press. It is called TED which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design.
Mountain-climbing doctor
By Rae Sedgwick
March 28, 2012
He appears tousled headed in the doorway, wearing green scrubs, glasses hanging from a lanyard around his neck. “You’re good,” he says; “you’re good.”
Chambers help growth
By Clausie Smith
March 28, 2012
Both Bonner Springs and Basehor are fortunate to be served by Chambers of Commerce.
A Look Back: RSS feed information
By Gene Young
March 22, 2012
The learning never stops where the internet is concerned.
A century of change
By Clausie Smith
March 21, 2012
Wouldn’t it be interesting if a time machine existed and we could swap places with folks who lived a long time ago?
A Look Back: A Brush with Letterheads
March 16, 2012
Since I retired from the Young Sign Company a few years ago, I still like to stop in the shop to visit the children and grandchildren.
Instate NCAA games were special
By Elvyn Jones
March 15, 2012
Kansas teams matched up in tournament three times
Giving valuable advice
By Rae Sedgwick
March 14, 2012
I think of her advice from time to time, when I am troubled. She is a good accountant; part psychologist, part sage.
A Look Back: Before photography
By Gene Young
March 8, 2012
Recently I got an e-mail with a video that was about a Camera Lucida and it reminded me on one I used over 60 years ago. It is an optical device used as a drawing aid by artists. long before digital cameras and modern technology. It performs an optical superimposition of the subject being viewed upon the surface upon which the artist is drawing. The artist sees both the scene and the drawing surface simultaneously, as in a photographic double exposure.
Of heroism and valor
March 7, 2012
I grew up with the Denny Dunivan story; a story of heroism and valor.
Reaching the golden years
By Clausie Smith
March 7, 2012
My late father-in-law used to quip that you had to be a decade older than your chronological age to reach the “golden years.”
A Look Back: Lansing gymnasium history
By Gene Young
March 1, 2012
A week or so ago Rusty Wynkoop, a graduate of Lansing High School in 1966, asked me exactly where the gymnasium floor was in 1949 and 50, the years our team went to state.