Commissioners review tower regulations - Aug. 6, 2025
During the Aug. 4 meeting, the commissioner reviewed and held a public hearing for a resolution amending the regulations for towers constructed with the county, but in the end opted to send it back to the Planning Commission. Planning and Zoning Director Ben Souza presented the resolution for section...[More]
Williams sentenced in amended case - Aug. 6, 2025
Keiden Williams, who was originally charged in Linn County District Court with attempted murder in the second degree along with several other counts in regards to an incident that took place in Parker on March 31, has been sentenced to 32 months in the custody of Department of Corrections. That sentence...[More]
Miami County Museum to present one-woman play on Laura Ingalls Wilder - Aug. 6, 2025
The beloved Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of “Little House on the Prairie,” immortalized her pioneer family life through her books and, in 1974, was herself immortalized in the television series of the same title starring Michael Landon. On August 9, one has the privilege to continue the...[More]
Senators Marshall & Ernst introduce legislation to prevent overregulation of farmers & ranchers - Aug. 6, 2025
WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in introducing the Clarifying Legal Exclusions Around Regulated (CLEAR) Waters Act, which excludes groundwater, farm ponds, irrigation ditches and puddles from federal regulation under the Clean Water...[More]
University of Kansas announces graduates - Aug. 6, 2025
LAWRENCE — The names of more than 6,700 graduates at the University of Kansas for summer and fall 2024 and spring 2025 have been announced by the University Registrar. Many graduates and candidates for degree celebrated by participating in KU Commencement, which took place May 17. Summer 2025...[More]
BULLY PULPIT - Aug. 6, 2025
Doors closing Many of you may have heard the saying “when God closes one door, He opens another” or something to that effect. Such a thing happened to me last weekend on a much-needed trip to Boston I had scheduled with a friend. The trip was designed to visit an old friend, she’s...[More]
UK as China’s Thumb Puppet - Aug. 6, 2025
British police do some good things. In 2023, officers were credited with reducing the number of phone snatchings by punks on mopeds. Great. Let’s have more of that, less of telling victims of totalitarian dictatorship to shut up for their own good. The UK police wanted expatriate Hongkonger Carmen...[More]
Iran’s water crisis is a mirror - Aug. 6, 2025
The U.S. should look hard I hate being right about things that only lead to disaster. It’s not flattering. It’s not vindicating. It’s just deeply, depressingly familiar. Right now, in July 2025, millions of Iranians are struggling to get clean water. Sanitation is collapsing...[More]
Hail to the CEO - Aug. 6, 2025
It doesn’t matter how much Trump does to help America become great again. Whatever it is, we know the liberal media and Democrats will still instantly go negative and blast him for hurting someone. Remember in the spring when Trump announced he was going to negotiate new tariff levels with every...[More]
Arnold Joseph Lickteig ~ 05-16-1931 to 07-31-2025 - Aug. 5, 2025
Linn County News Published August 6, 2025 Arnold Joseph Lickteig, age 94, formerly of Greeley, Kan., passed away on Thursday, July 31, 2025, at Colonial Oaks Senior Living at Spring Hill in Spring Hill, Kan. Arnie was born on May 16, 1931, on a farm east of Greeley, Kan., he was the third...[More]
