August 2025

Explore Kansas Outdoors: Are you an old fisherman?

Well, yet another birthday has come-and-gone. It seems that since I’ve turned 70, my “check engine light” has come on and refuses to go out. It flickers on-and-off occasionally, but never goes completely off. Don’t get me wrong, at 74, I’m blessed more than many, and I praise God for that, but it seems like I daily feel like the proverbial “old fisherman,” and I’ve devised a questionnaire so you can see if you too fit into that category. So take the test;

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Chiefs fall to Seahawks

The Kansas City Chiefs dropped their second preseason game on Friday night, falling to the Seattle Seahawks, 33-16, at Lumen Field. While the scoreboard tilted heavily in Seattle’s favor, the night was more about player evaluations than the final result.

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The Book of Mormon and the wind

It was around 375 A.D. and all was not well. The wayward Nephites(1) had begun to lose the great genocidal war to their enemies. Finally Mormon repented of his vow to not lead them, and they gave him command once again of their armies. “But”, Mormon writes, “I was without hope, for I knew the judgements of the Lord which should come upon them; for they repented(6) not of their iniquities, but did struggle for their lives without calling upon that Being who created them.”(2)

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Gas prices continue to fall

Average gasoline prices in Kansas have fallen 2.2 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.82/g, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 1,329 stations in Kansas. Prices in Kansas are 3.7 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 29.5 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has decreased 1.9 cents compared to a week ago and stands at $3.671 per gallon.

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Adventures in Reading: The importance of presidential wives

I have written often about Presidents, but far less often about the Presidents’ wives. Many things impact the influence of the stability of the nation. This blog considers the important of presidential wives. Only one U.S. President was unmarried throughout his life. Six presidents were unmarried when they took office. Cleveland married while in office. Four were widowers when they took office and never married again. Three lost their wives while in office. However, in recent years our presidents have had wives beside them as they campaigned and served. Do First Ladies matter? If the issues predicted by Ulysses S. Grant in the comment above are significent, do such things apply to First Ladies?,

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