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- Letter: HIV testing
- May 18, 2013
- A May 12 Journal-World editorial titled “Shirking state” omitted important information regarding changes to HIV testing operations in Kansas. Douglas County continues to have a publicly funded HIV testing site.
- Letter: Sweet deal
- May 18, 2013
- Lawrence is one of the few communities in Kansas that is served by more than two Internet providers. Unlike Topeka, Wichita, Salina and Manhattan, Lawrence has a local Internet provider that isn’t the phone company or the cable company.
- Letter: Follow money
- May 16, 2013
- Taxpayers taking hit with Fannie Mae
- Letter: Wrong concept
- May 16, 2013
- Designating historic sites in old East Lawrence will not damper economic development.
- Letter: Upgrade needed
- May 16, 2013
- City Commission should back fiber internet projects in Lawrence.
- Letter: Unfair aid
- May 14, 2013
- It’s bad enough that the city bought a bill of goods in giving inexpensive access to city facilities for Lawrence Freenet, with the dubious promise of providing Internet capabilities to those who could not afford it, but to consider giving the morphed company, Wicked Broadband, a $500,000 grant and a competitive advantage over other local Internet providers is too much.
- Letter: Misguided
- May 14, 2013
- In his May 8 letter, Steve Willson, DVM, says the May 5 Journal-World article about a concert fundraiser for Operation Wildlife (OWL) “encourages the creation of serious public health problems.” He then gives a brief tutorial on rabies and one line about the dangers of approaching great blue herons. Eh?
- Letter: Rabies data
- May 12, 2013
- Local veterinarian Steve Willson claims the Journal-World “encourages” the spread of rabies by reporting an upcoming concert for Operation WildLife. My daughter and I volunteer there. We’re trained to handle animals safely. Nobody wants rabies.
- Letter: Moral choice
- May 12, 2013
- Should we have surrendered to Japan because nuclear war is too horrific? Unlike ersatz moralist Joe Douglas (“Missile message,” Public Forum, May 4) I do not think the Polaris missile display in Centennial Park symbolizes misguided patriotism. Mr. Douglas committed a false choice fallacy when he described the incontestable devastation of Hiroshima. He failed to recognize the vastly larger cost of any other course of action open to Truman.
- Letter: Firepower
- May 11, 2013
- I heard Wayne LaPierre remark at the NRA convention that the only way to stop a bad man with a gun is with a good guy with a gun. How about making an effort to prevent bad men from acquiring firearms in the first place! I’m not naïve and I realize bad guys will probably acquire a weapon if they really want one, but why make it easy for them? I’m a gun owner and I even approve of having a concealed weapon if you are a law abiding citizen. But I don’t have a problem with expanded background check. If it would save just one life, it is worth the effort.
- Expanded T
- May 11, 2013
- The Lawrence Transit System recently announced a plan to begin operating 24 hours. The plan, as described, is nothing more than a glorified taxi service. I propose the T run a pilot program this summer expanding all applicable routes to 24 hours a day, seven days a week, running on the hour from midnight to 5 a.m., to determine potential ridership.
- Letter: Military icon
- May 11, 2013
- Since the dawn of the atomic age, the men and women of our strategic nuclear forces have spent countless hours preparing for a war that they prayed would never come. They have served long tours in remote locations far from families and friends. They have risked their lives working with toxic and volatile substances in confined concrete silos. They have battled minus-83-degree cold at Thule and flown countless hours in cramped aircraft.
- Letter: Pinckney pride
- May 10, 2013
- Thank you, Lawrence, for Pinckney mural.
- Poor leadership
- May 10, 2013
- Poor leadership plagues both state and local goverments.
- Dandelions
- May 10, 2013
- Dandelions infest Lawrence yards.
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