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Beat the weather with these spicy tacos
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The bleaker the weather, the brighter the food, I say. It's the new year, and January can be a cold, wet and dark second act following the holiday festivities. A perfect antidote is to create light and vibrant food to ward off the seasonal blues and balance out any celebratory excesses.  more
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New year, new reads
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The library is offering a winter reading program for adults that just started yesterday — “Snow Many Books”! Fill out a slip for every book you read between now and Feb. 28 which will serve as an entry for a grand prize drawing.   more
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Bobby Neal Winters
The act of creation
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My house doesn’t have a basement; it has a well that you can walk around in. Down the middle of it is a wall that used to separate part of it off as a furnace room, but at some point the water that regularly bubbles up from below rotted it off at the bottom. more
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Richard L. Baker
Stocks in 2023
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My mom always had to tell me, “we aren’t opening any presents early.” Christmas Eve as a child was tough because I didn’t like to wait. I was the “can’t we just open one present tonight” kid. Marketwise, things are about to change for the better, but we have to wait a little while for it.  more
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Alaska and aviation
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Ask just about anyone what state they would like to visit that they haven’t been to yet and I venture to guess that at least 8 out of 10 would say either Hawaii or Alaska. I have had the good fortune to visit both states more than once and both are beautiful and also unique.  more
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Pittsburg Public Library announces January events
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As the new year gets underway, the Pittsburg Public Library has announced a variety of programs and events planned for the month of January and beyond.  more
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J.T. Knoll
Time and time again
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I woke on Thursday morning to see a perplexed male cardinal perched atop the half fallen, empty sunflower seed tray dangling on the holder in our south yard.   more
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Jeff Peyton
Be it therefore so resolved...
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I don't do New Year's Resolutions. In fact, I don't do anything "new year." A night owl by nature (I rarely go to bed before midnight), Dec. 31 is the one day of the year I tend to sign off early. I can't tell you the last time I watched the ball drop over Times Square, but I'm sure it was in the mid-1980s.  more
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Jonathan Riley
One door closes, another opens
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The New Year is upon us, and along with the parties and resolutions are coming some significant changes to institutions that play key roles in an important piece of the local economy, namely healthcare.  more
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For Jan. 6 committee, time for transparency is running out
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Republicans take control of the House of Representatives in one week. When that happens, the Jan. 6 committee, with all its members selected by outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will go out of existence. Now, as the clock ticks down, it appears the committee's demise will leave some significant unanswered questions.  more
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Keep a light burning
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Here's a New Year's resolution: Support Ukraine. Stop Putin. Kyiv needs all the essential weapons of war — tanks and missiles, howitzers and drones. But it also needs less obvious weapons, from diesel-powered generators to long-lasting lightbulbs.  more
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ARPA funding for local childcare is government at its best
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Kudos to Crawford County Commissioners Bruce Blair, Jeremy Johnson and Tom Moody for using American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to create over 600 new openings for preschoolers in local day care facilities! more
J.T. Knoll
Losing mother and getting a sister
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This excerpt from the autobiography of former Arma native Frank Jeler Jr., reflects on the sorrow of losing his mother and shows that having a new baby sister brings surprises, love and a call to duty. —  J.T.K.  more
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Kansas could sure use marijuana legalization’s tax benefits
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I received a Christmas gift from my family in Durango, Colorado. It was wrapped in their local newspaper for padding, and some large headlines caught my eye. The one above the fold was about pot sales. It said Colorado has collected over $2 billion in taxes since 2015. more
All the presidents’ insurrections
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Well, the Jan. 6 committee has produced its long-awaited report. In a surprise move, the committee referred former President Donald Trump for criminal prosecution, accusing him of inciting insurrection, among other crimes.  more
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De-icing salts great for roads and sidewalks, bad for plants
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When snow falls and cities need to clear off streets and sidewalks, they turn to salts to deice. Salt is great for hard surfaces, but creates problems when introduced to soil and plants. more
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There’s gold in them thar hillbillies
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It didn't surprise me when, backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, Father Thomas Joseph White began telling me that while he enjoyed touring with his band the Hillbilly Thomists, which consists of musical friars, he enjoys writing more. more
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot?
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Old friends shouldn’t be forgotten but many of the books I read in 2022 will be. If I hadn’t kept a list of the titles I read this past year, I wouldn’t have remembered half of them. more
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A fresh and bright tartare for the new year
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Party food can be healthy, too. In fact, during the festive season, it's important to have a few recipes up our sleeves that are fancy enough to be invited to a holiday party while balancing the season's excess. more
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Bobby Neal Winters
Frozen acorn-jelly soup
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We can travel in space, but we can also travel in time. And as has been observed by Einstein and Tennessee Williams, “Time is the farthest distance between two places.”  more
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