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To the editor:

Like many other Kansans, I am less than enthusiastic about our new state slogan “Kansas — As big as you think.” In fact, the more news I read, the more I doubt that Kansans are thinking at all, never mind thinking “big.”

But as I read about the recent events surrounding the Terri Schiavo case, it occurred to me that her medical condition might offer Kansans a more current, honest and accurate state slogan. In fact it covers all the “big” issues important to Kansans today: the legislative failure to fund state schools; Fred Phelps; the Kansas Board of Education’s push to replace science curriculum with Christian theology; the overwhelming passage of the gay marriage ban; the Kansas wheat crop and the state’s agricultural economy.

“Kansas — The persistent vegetative state.”

Randy Austin,

Lawrence