Ned Seaton

About 200 Olathe community leaders and family and friends gathered Monday to celebrate the formal groundbreaking for a new housing development in Olathe for young adults with intellectual disabilities.

It’s worth pondering, as we approach July 4, exactly what happened 250 years ago.

Gotta say, I appreciated all the red-white-and-blueness of the past weekend. Caught a good fireworks show, saw friends, spent good time with family, saw a country music shindig on TV

The property tax rate paid by Manhattan residents tax rate continues to rank in the middle of the pack of comparable Kansas communities.

Q: I saw the police block traffic for a big tree limb on the street the other day. When I came back by, the limb was gone. Do the cops

Spotted on I-70 recently, an Amazon semi with the familiar smile logo and a catchphrase: “Warning: Contents may cause happiness.”

A Manhattan woman who served on the panel that helps pick state Supreme Court justices is defending that system as “exceptionally professional” and that it picks “extraordinary” judges. A proposed

Manhattan ranks seventh-highest among the state’s largest cities in the amount of debt carried by the city government, according to a Manhattan Mercury analysis.

Q: I wonder if the city is still trying to pay down debt from the mall, from downtown redevelopment and from the Discovery Center?

K-State’s announcement that it will sell booze throughout the football stadium makes me think back to the good ol’ days when everybody just hid their hooch.