Former House speaker has vital message for America

Whether or not an individual would vote for former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich as a GOP candidate for the U.S. presidency, like and admire him or not, it is important for all Americans to hear his message. The former ...

• Kansas assets
  University researchers, like those honored this week, play a vital role in the future of Kansas.
• A rush job
  Democratic members of Congress, with the urging and arm-twisting of President Obama, are pushing for a rare Saturday vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to approve the House version of a new national health care policy.
• State subsistence
  It’s hard to imagine that any Kansan doesn’t share Gov. Mark Parkinson’s “hope … to present a budget that doesn’t include any tax increases” for the coming fiscal year. The only problem, as Parkinson noted, is “we need some help on the revenue side,” and that help doesn’t seem to be coming.
• Afghan government fails legitimacy test
  Actress Cate Blanchett, who has played Queen Elizabeth I, is performing here, portraying someone less than regal — anxious Blanche DuBois, in Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

• Getting ‘smart’
• Enrollment shift
• Back in service
• First step