MORE NEWS

• G. Joseph McLiney | If you’re on the pill, know the risks

  May 18, 7:21 PM
  

  Today there is a product being sold that greatly increases the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure and other deadly aliments, with 50 years of research demonstrating the danger, and it’s not tobacco.

• Midwest Voices | Tell a success story to your child

  May 12, 5:45 PM
  

  When I was teaching sociology courses in the 1990s, there were a few Jewish boys who were the top students in my class. Still, they wanted to be better than the best.

• Midwest Voices | My secret score sheet on the greatest American families

  May 8, 6:24 PM
  

  The greatest family in the history of the U.S.? I have a formula. I used it years ago to predict the winner of the Big Eight football conference back when I was in a newspaper sports department.

• Midwest Voices | Overcoming us vs. them in America

  Apr 28, 5:31 PM
  

  If we only listen to and value the opinions of people who believe what we do and vilify the rest, we are complicit in the degradation of civil discourse. Everyone is prejudiced, including me. I think less of people who perpetuate hate.

• Midwest Voices | Public education deserves respect

  Apr 21, 7:07 PM
  

  Out of ignorance and not malice, I was under the impression that a public school education was what someone had to settle for if they couldn’t attend a private school. To say that the servings of humble pie since then have been plentiful and well deserved would be an understatement.

• Midwest Voices | Would politicians please grow up?

  Apr 14, 6:27 PM
  

  Recently, I listened to my daughter’s news from her biology class, and it struck me that her explanation of how the teenage brain develops might also help me understand the behavior of politicians in our current political landscape.

• Midwest Voices | Barack Obama, failed president

  Apr 6, 8:05 PM
  

  Daily the letters and columns on The Star’s opinion pages reflect the accusations and divisiveness surrounding the presidential campaigns. Yet a rare flash of political insight appeared on March 30 — an eye-opening letter from Jim Collier of Kansas City.

• Midwest Voices | How to control women, create jobs

  Mar 30, 8:05 PM

  Gov. Brownback, may I call you Sam? I think a little intimacy is fair when you and your administration are working so hard to control my vagina.

• Midwest Voices | Let’s reach out for common ground

  Mar 23, 8:12 PM
  

  Liberals, please calm down. Every week or so, some conservative who wants a little media attention will express an opinion on a controversial topic — usually an issue that has to do with sex. Every time, it seems, liberals take the bait and react with an explosion of righteous fury.

» More