Editorial/Opinion

Let’s take a trip down fantasy lane for a moment - in which we have an industry that has created an estimated 312,000 jobs since 2022 and has pledged tens of millions, if not billions, of dollars in future investment in parts of the country that are in desperate need of job growth and economic diversity . . . such as Western Kansas.

Secretary of State Pete Hegseth - who has created turmoil throughout the Pentagon and recklessly transmitted battle operational details over an unsecured Signal chat, and who now wants to deploy the Marines against American civilians - has waged a nonstop attack on American values.

In the movie “Cool Hand Luke,” it was Strother Martin who famously said with respect to Paul Newman’s character, “What we have here is failure to communicate.”