- Signs of hope for homeless
- January 31, 2010
- I was off the grid last week when Loring Henderson, director of the Lawrence Community Shelter, called my home phone to let me know that the shelter had asked the city to drop its special use permit request for the old Don’s Steakhouse site and announced that it will pursue instead purchase of an existing building at the Franklin Business Center, just east of the county jail. I was spending the night as an overnight host with Family Promise, sitting around plates of spaghetti and meatballs, talking with several moms and dads about life, childrearing, job searching and, with some, about time they’d spent at the shelter before being accepted into the Family Promise program.
- Small schools benefit students
- January 25, 2010
- The Lawrence school district faces dramatic budget cuts over the coming months and is considering closing schools. In making these cuts we urge the school board and administration to find solutions that do not involve closing any east-side neighborhood elementary school, for two reasons.
- Health care reform a dismal failure
- January 24, 2010
- As we begin a New Year, it’s natural to reflect on what transpired during 2009 and firm up our hopes for 2010. My biggest hope can be simply expressed: I’d like to get healthy.
- Play it safe on the environment
- December 12, 2009
- As the Journal-World has seen fit to print two extended pieces by non-scientists on global climate change recently (George Gurley and George Will), it seems reasonable to have a reply from a scientist, even if not a climate scientist.
- Nation has right to ask ‘why?’
- November 21, 2009
- It was a cold, cloudy day at the Dole Institute on Nov. 10, the time when Marines from the Lawrence area came together to celebrate the 234th birthday of the Corps.
- Parks: Less can be more
- October 28, 2009
- The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department is in the process of choosing top priorities for the city’s recreation system.
- Bring on the baby boomers
- August 20, 2009
- If I were inclined to promote economic development, I’d try something new and guaranteed to produce quality, recession-proof jobs for far less than the $27,000 per job spent on average in Kansas to create new ones by the eco-devo gurus.
- Fear stifles health care debate
- August 14, 2009
- Like many of my fellow Kansans, the other night I answered the call for a “tele-town hall” conducted by Sen. Sam Brownback.
- Local homeless shelter responds to new needs
- July 31, 2009
- Canvas a few people about our local homeless population and you may hear comments like, “The people on our streets choose to be homeless.” Or, “Those scary meth addicts aren’t even from here.” These gross categorizations create a schism between “us” and “them” and obscure an important truth: The homelessness that we witness on the streets of Lawrence is a recent social problem.
- News icon strove for excellence
- July 21, 2009
- The last icon of the great days of journalism is gone.
- Athletic-academic balance
- June 23, 2009
- Bill Mayer’s June 19 column, in which he praised the balance that Bob Frederick brought to the KU athletic department during his time as athletic director, has resurrected the ongoing conflict that has been brewing in college sports for at least the past century.
- U.S. needs national health care, not health insurance
- June 22, 2009
- When one has an accident or comes down with a serious illness, should the first question be: “Do you have insurance? Does it cover this?”
- GM plan really a UAW bailout
- June 13, 2009
- Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult to step in and confiscate billions of dollars in stockholder and bondholder wealth. These are not normal times, however. Industry turmoil gives the Obama administration the go-ahead to prepackage a bankruptcy petition that pads union coffers while wiping out common shareholders and ravaging public bondholders.
- Advertising messages bombard children
- May 22, 2009
- An average child in the United States sees about 40,000 commercials a year just while watching television. With more than 40 million kids online daily, and growing, perhaps no tool has become more important to marketers than the Internet.
- Economy still offers opportunity
- May 9, 2009
- We are in an economic time of crisis, around the country, as well as right here in Lawrence, Kansas. There have been lots of layoffs recently and not enough jobs to go around. That should be obvious to everyone, but especially to those of us in the construction industry.
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