Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Is this a triple feature?
Editor:I have been privileged to make 82 orbits around our sun. So I have seen and witnessed a lot of foreign affairs, beginning with the Korean War, Then Vietnam (A cousin served in country, and I ...
Letter to the Editor: Doomsday Climate Change Hysteria
Dear Editor, Some Agronomists suggest an excess of CO2 is beneficial to green crops such as corn, soybeans, alfalfa and small grains. A bountiful harvest means we can feed more of our people wor...
Letter to the Editor: T'aint funny no more
Dear Editor;Where has the humor gone?My goodness, it seems forever that I’ve heard a funny story; told by a real storyteller to boot. When you get a goodie to pass on, one discovers just one-h...
Around the town
There are times that I look at the things our little town has created. I don't even notice them sometimes because I'm just used to seeing them. We are used to our awesome play areas for our kids,...
Letter to the Editor: Robert Kennedy Jr.
Dear Editor:Another Podcast from KXEL Jacobson. Runs on KXEL Saturday mornings a 7;30 AM and repeats on Sunday afternoonhttps://kxel.com/jacobsen/Go to the 7:09 Mark or thereabout...
KS newspaper raid draws plenty of attention, but journalists defy threats
By CLAY WIRESTONE ǀ KANSAS REFLECTORAfter Kansas Reflector reported on the ignominious and unconstitutional raid of the Marion County Record on Aug. 11, news outlets and commentators f...
Scammers are out again
I had a note from a "friend" asking if I used Amazon. Having just placed an Amazon order I thought it was referring to something else. So I said, "Yep." I thought this was odd because I never tal...
Letter to the Editor: Hyperbaric O2 chamber for COVID?
Editor: https://kxel.com/jacobsen/ --- Go to 41:30 mark or thereabouts and listen to the discussion concerning hyperbaric chambers for treatment.Above is a link to Saturday's broadcast on ...
When the 2nd Cousin One Time Removed and the Third Cousin and I get together
While I love genealogy, I don't understand the whole, 5th cousin 20 times removed thing. All I know is that somewhere in those family trees, we're all related. I've often wished that in Vinton we coul...
Letter to the Editor: Trump brought it on himself
To The Editor,I have bit my tongue over the last couple of years when a group of so-called no-it-all’s have opined about those bad, bad Democrats and President Biden being the so...