Osawatomie News

For the Teddy Roosevelt-style populist message President Barack Obama's putting together for his reelection campaign, Thursday's $26 billion mortgage settlement with the nation's five largest banks has the potential to be a very big stick.

Mr. and Mrs. Ron Blackburn of Lane will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Plum Creek Church of Christ in Osawatomie.

The Rev. Samuel Adair was an abolitionist, but his primary reason for coming to Osawatomie was to propagate the Christian faith.

She was born June 10, 1931, in Osawatomie, the daughter of John E. and Ethel Mae Raley Hicks.

A House committee heard testimony Tuesday in support of a bill that would open the door to allowing Kansas grocery and convenience stores to sell full-strength beer, wine and spirits.

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us, and training them into a better race to inhabit the land and pass it on.

In his infamous Osawatomie, Kansas, speech in December, President Obama stood reality on its head when he said we already had tried relying on a strategy of unbridled capitalism, low tax rates and deregulated markets, and it had failed.A In fact, we haven't tried it for a century now, and it worked when we did.

At the dawn of the 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt Jr. drafted a political playbook for a fair deal.

Barry C. Lynn is the author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction.

James H. Holmes fought beside John Brown at the Battle of Osawatomie on Aug. 30, 1856, and reported about his experiences during the Battle of Osawatomie in the Sept.

President Barack Obama makes phone calls to 10 American service members stationed around the world, from his vacation rental home in Kailua, Hawaii, Dec.

Do you think it's a First Amendment right of American citizens to be allowed to demonstrate near funerals on public property? RICHMOND - Early mistakes drug down the Vikings Tuesday night, coach Scott Lane said, leading to a 56-49 win for Osawatomie.

Do you think it's a First Amendment right of American citizens to be allowed to demonstrate near funerals on public property? RICHMOND - Central Heights didn't play bad Tuesday night, coach Rusty Cannady said, but they also didn't have enough successful shots to pull out a win against Osawatomie.

There are 1.1 million more unemployed Americans today than when President Obama was sworn into office in 2009.

My parents often said to me, "Life is not fair." That is a universal truth of life.

I'm writing in response to your article in last week's Phoenix , as there are a few serious errors in there I feel I should correct.

A State of the Union address from a president seeking reelection is always an odd event.

The future of downtown business Brown's Hardware appears as if it will be decided in conferences rather than in court after the City of Osawatomie moved to dismiss the litigation against owners Mike and Sue Page.

Harvesters delivery driver Tony Quatrocky helps unload a pallet of boxes containing individually packaged BackSnack kits at the First Baptist Church Community Outreach Center on Monday afternoon.

He attended Chanute schools and then graduated from the Pittsburg State University auto mechanic program in 1989.