Jim Beckwith is executive director at the Northeast Kansas Area Agency on Aging based in Brown County, where the median age in 2000 was 40 and where one out every five people is 65 or older. For comparison, Douglas County’s 2000 median age was 27; 8 percent of the population is 65 or...
photo by:Tribune Content Agency Clarence Page I usually don’t try to “do sports,” as some of my newsroom colleagues might say. But I beg your indulgence as I try to pay proper homage to football great Jim Brown, even as I still try to figure out what proper homage looks like. ...