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Letter: Haskell arts
Judith Snyder, Lawrence
April 15, 2013
I found the Journal-World article “From artsy to artplace” (April 7) very interesting. I wish the Arts Center much success for all their efforts. That being said, I was disappointed to see no mention of Haskell Indian Nations University included in all these plans.
Letter: Misplaced anger
Ralph Reed, Lawrence
April 15, 2013
This is a response to “Offended voter” (Public forum, April 11). Your letter undeservedly laid into an “officious woman protecting us from voter fraud,” who was working the polls when you went to vote.
Letter: Ticking debt
Robert J. Vaughan, Lawrence
April 15, 2013
I keep hearing news lately that our national debt is getting pretty high, now $17 trillion and rising. We need an analogy to help grasp that number.
Letter: Another parade?
Alan Fisher, Lawrence
April 13, 2013
Congratulations to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade committee, which showed so much of the green and now is distributing a lot of the green to worthy causes. They have displayed a lot of their colors.
Letter: First preamble
April 13, 2013
Holly Weatherford, American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri, is concerned that the Kansas Legislature, in passing HB2253, has declared that “the life of each human being begins at fertilization” and that “unborn children have interests in life, health and well-being that should be protected.” She asserts, “That preamble language is dangerous.” (Journal-World, April 10) Dangerous? They have found nothing different than those who wrote the preamble to the Declaration of Independence: “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Letter: Offended voter
Judith Galas, Lawrence
April 11, 2013
I voted provisionally on April 2. I learned from the officious woman protecting us from voter fraud that I couldn’t vote without an ID, even if the volunteers at the table knew me.
Letter: Altered flow
Joe Hyde, Lawrence
April 9, 2013
While a drought-depleted Kansas River flows into Lawrence, Bowersock Dam’s owners raise upstream pool elevation, building head pressure needed to operate both of their hydroelectric plants (one being new). Their river dam, recently upgraded, stands taller, enabling this pressure boost.
Letter: Repeal postal act
Brad Wertz, president, American Postal Workers Union, Local 393, Lawrence
April 9, 2013
On March 28, a letter from Mid-America District Manager Gail Hendrix was published in response to local Letter Carrier President Andy Tuttle. Her letter said nothing to refute Andy’s, only mimicking the headquarters line.
Letter: Jayhawk woes
Delbert Bradley, Lawrence
April 9, 2013
Kansas University’s last game should never have gone to overtime. Leading by 14 with less than seven minutes to play, they didn’t need a lot more points. They did need better ball-handling and decision-making, etc., and defense.
Letter: Living wage
Brian Sultana, Lawrence
April 7, 2013
Through a month-and-a-half-long campaign, United Students Against Sweatshops at Kansas University secured orders of union-made, living-wage apparel set to enter KU Bookstore in mid-April. This victory was achieved through students caring about conditions under which university apparel is made. It is a positive first step in addressing the enormous issue of sweatshop labor in the garment industry.
Letter: Coach’s error
John Walburn and Jean Foster, Ottawa
April 7, 2013
As Journal-World sports writers routinely point out, basketball turnovers can result in a game being lost, as can Kansas University’s coaching staff. However, senior Elijah Johnson has been noted for his turnovers and questionable, if not flagrant, intentional fouls.
Letter: Misleading claim
Gene Kean, Lawrence
April 5, 2013
I was surprised that the Lawrence public schools promoted its $92.5 million new school bond issue as a “No-Tax-Increase School Bond Election.” Voters urged to vote “yes” for the no-tax-increase bond had to be confused.
Letter: Pesticide concern
Kelly Barth, Lawrence
April 5, 2013
In response to Jennifer Smith’s garden column (Journal-World, April 4), I’m sorry, but if trees could talk, they would say “don’t spray me with pesticides — the woodpeckers were working just fine.”
Letter: AFP agenda
Don Richards, Lawrence
April 5, 2013
It was rather amusing to read in the March 27 Journal-World how the Americans for Prosperity representative claimed it was “disingenuous” when challenged by a school board member at a town hall meeting regarding AFP’s opposition to the Lawrence school district’s proposed bond. What’s truly disingenuous are the actions of AFP and their extremist political ideology.
Letter: Parking proposal
Bert Haverkate-Ens, Lawrence
April 2, 2013
Park and relax. Have the city take over the vast Tanger parking lot.

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