PHILADELPHIA — Lots of us think we know why American health care costs are rising faster than a speeding bullet, or at least faster than our gross domestic product, incomes and inflation.

It's because we're such profligate users of medical care. We run to the doctor at the first sign of a sniffle and demand heroic treatment until our final days.

We may cringe at the bills, but we're all after pain-free immortality. Plus, we've built the best health care system in the world.

Inmates are staying longer at the Sedgwick County Jail, a concern because time is money.

Taxpayers' money.

Longer stays increase costs for the jail, which asked for $2 million more last week to get through the end of the year. The problem comes as county leaders seek ways to reduce the jail's population after they decided last year not to spend $54 million to expand it.

The challenge was making sure the 1870s cabin didn't fall apart.

But after five months of restoration, Old Cowtown handed over the key to the Heller Cabin to Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer on Saturday morning.

The cabin now stands at the entrance to the living history museum, which re-creates part of Wichita from the same era.