Hawvers’ Still Booming is here!
February 2026
Welcome to our website focusing on “Hawvers’ Still Booming (HSB)…providing insights & information for Topeka-area Baby Boomers and other Grown-Ups!”
More information below, but quickly for your convenience, here are two key links:
- Sign up to have Hawvers’ Still Booming delivered to your email in-box: Please click here to subscribe (it’s FREE).
- Want to check out Hawvers’ Still Booming before you sign up or have you accidentally deleted an earlier one? Click here for the archives.
Hawver News Company LLC began producing Hawvers’ Still Booming on Dec. 31, 2025. You get the generally weekly emailed Dispatches and the monthly online in-depth Newsletter.
Please join us for this adventure! Just click here to sign up to receive via email Hawvers’ Still Booming Dispatches, which will provide:
- News & information with a focus on local and state government actions affecting your wallet and well-being, other features & tidbits we’re still figuring out, and sometimes Martin Hawver’s famous humorous musings.
- Previews of the upcoming monthly Hawvers’ Still Booming Newsletter which will feature Topeka-area Baby Boomers & other Grown-Ups who are writing the next chapters of their lives, plus articles on finances, government action, health, veterans’ benefits, travel, food–including a Cook of the Month–books, life adjustments, pet care, more AND links to those Newsletters as they go online each month (first one soon).
Did we mention that these publications are FREE? (There later will be opportunities to donate if you want to—kick the tires first.)
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So, what’s the deal with Hawver News Company? Started in 1991 by Vickie Griffith Hawver, it’s a small newsgathering/writing/editing business in Topeka, Kansas. It is owned by Vickie and Martin Hawver, who met and married while both worked at the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper.
Probably the most well-known HNC project was Hawver’s Capitol Report, the respected, non-partisan news service reporting on Kansas government & politics. We started it on June 18, 1993, and sold it on Dec. 16, 2022, to State Affairs Inc., a new national digital news organization aiming to establish news bureaus in statehouses across the country.
Hawver’s Capitol Report often required 60 hours of work a week from each of us and we were getting tired! So, we sold that publication (but not our company), and we worked in 2023 for the new company during the transition. Since then, we have been kinda “retired” — although mostly we’ve been floundering around trying to figure out how we want to write the next chapter of our lives.
Turns out, that will be producing Hawvers’ Still Booming (hopefully in less than 60 hours a week). Please join us!
Thank you! Keep on booming.
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