A favorite quote from the recent campus conflicts comes from Adam Young, a freshman at the New School in New York. After student trespassers were arrested and hauled to police headquarters, he complained, 'This is not OK ... We're 18 years old.'

'This may be Biden's Vietnam.' Bernie Sanders' warning couldn't be starker. The campus protests that have raged for weeks feel like 1968 in miniature.

Annie Lane Dear Annie: I am a 48-year-old male living at home with my folks and older sister. We are a close-knit family and do things together often.

Dear Annie: I am also a parent of a child who lost his battle with addiction in 2022. There are so many of us with difficult stories to share.

Vol. (7) WILL KANSAS TAXPAYERS FINALLY GET THE DESERVED TAX CUTS? The Legislative session has come to an end for the year.

Like my garden, my mailbox is showing definite signs of spring. Just this week two beautifully addressed, thick envelopes showed up, both of them announcing graduation ceremonies -- one from high school, the other from college. However, neither even hinted at an invitation for me to give the commencement address. But had I been asked, I do have the world's shortest graduation speech ready to go: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CLASS OF 2024, FACULTY, FRIENDS AND FAMILY: Today I would like to share with you seven things I wish I'd learned sooner. I cannot be sure that I would have paid attention, but there's a chance I might have. Now I offer you that same chance.

For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness. For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall. As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him. -- 2 Samuel 22:29-31

Dear Annie: You recently said you rarely get letters praising mothers-in-law. Well, here is one! I grew up in an abusive family with a mother who has severe borderline personality disorder and refuses to get medication or therapy.

After overriding several of Governor Kelly’s vetoes, passing another good tax cut plan (SB 37) for all Kansans, and a largest-in-history state budget (HB 2551), the Kansas Legislature brought the gavel down on the 2024 Session on Tuesday, April 30th. Only the future will reveal just how successful the 2024 Session really was.

THE ELUSIVE SNIPE One of the rights of growing up in the country is to take a friend snipe hunting. You take an unsuspecting relative out in the field, at dusk, with a gunny sack waiting to catch the snipe that everyone but you knew wasn’t going to arrive.