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Planting Cool Season Grasses

For too many in Kansas and United States, simple survival requires daily battles

Richard P. Holm, MD

You’ll have strong ‘peelings’ for lemon blueberry bars

Challenges facing US health care

Here it is, August. Summer has flown by and already there is Halloween candy roaming the shelves of Walmart. For most of us, August also brings the normal adjustment of transitioning back to the school year. It is normal for this to look differently for everyone, especially depending upon the age of your child. You may find yourself stressing to find the school supplies list, supporting your youth through two a day practices for athletic season or looking forward to getting back to the routine of the school year.

If you have read this column for any length of time, you know that I am, in no way, a gardener. Despite that, I still follow a Kansas gardening group on Facebook, and I love seeing the posts of beautiful gardens, weird plants and bugs that show up in people’s yards and discussions about how to keep everything alive.

It would be easy to view Friday’s police raid on a rural Kansas newsroom as another sign Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan for world domination is not the only threat to our democracy. It appears to violate the Privacy Protection Act, which explicitly protects materials journalists collect in the course of their work from fishing expeditions by authorities.