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Headlines from Douglas County's past.

The Nashville indie-folk songwriter just announced his new album '5AM Paradise' for release in late October with this lead title track.

Michael Kazin’s new book offers a pointed warning to his fellow progressives, and a surprising defense of President Biden.

Bob Dole was a happy undergrad at the University of Kansas in 1942. 'He didn't want to go to war,' Richard Ben Cramer writes in chapter 5 of What It Takes: The Way to the White House, his doorstop 'masterpiece' (as Jonathan Martin called it when Cramer died in 2013). Dole was happily 'fooling around' on campus and at his fraternity, pursuing his studies, going out for football, baseball, and

The two sides of Joe Biden: Ambition combined with empathy make for an uncommon politician Marc Fisher, The Washington Post Jan. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Joe Biden, like any president, is a man of great ambition. This is a guy who started developing a detailed plan for a presidential campaign when he was in college. Actually, trace it back even further: Biden once visited his old Catholic school, and a student asked whether he'd always wanted to become president. Biden demurred, but a nun who'd taught him years before stepped in with a reminder - it turned out young Joey had written a p...