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Saturday Column

KU video doesn’t replace live speech from chancellor
By Dolph C. Simons, Jr.
February 4, 2012
Times change, sometimes for the better, sometimes not for the better.

Tom Keegan

Stats say Taylor deserves Cousy mention
By Tom Keegan
February 13, 2012
The Wooden Award. The Naismith Trophy. The Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year award. The Oscar Robertson Trophy. The Adolph Rupp Trophy.

Your Turn

Knowledge punched by pundits in 2011
Leonard Krishtalka
January 2, 2012
2011 featured pernicious political posturing over what we know and how we discover it.

Boomer Girl Diary

Boomer Girl Diary: Getting into a Siri-ous friendship
By Cathy Hamilton
February 5, 2012
I was so excited to find her under the tree. “Look how beautiful!” I cried. “So sleek, so chic. So… me!”

Bill Mayer

Former player Howard Engleman truly was KU basketball great
By Bill Mayer
January 14, 2011
No Kansas University student athlete ever met Phog Allen’s ultimate standard for excellence better than Howard Engleman, the multi-faceted former basketball All-American who died Wednesday at age 91.

Chuck Woodling

Don’t be deterred, kids
By Chuck Woodling
April 15, 2010
No way of knowing for sure, but I hope I’m smarter than a fifth-grader … although maybe not as smart as Miss Cochrane’s bunch.

Gary Bedore

Lasting KU-NU memories
By Gary Bedore
February 5, 2011
Two crises apparently averted, it’s time for me to embrace the final Kansas-Nebraska basketball game to be played in cozy, underrated Devaney Center.

Ryan Wood

Tracking down team fun, but difficult, task
Google, cell phone indispensible
By Ryan Wood
February 16, 2008
The phone rang for a man I presumed to be Lincoln Minor, the former Kansas University basketball player who played 34 games in the 1987-88 season. “Hello?” the man on the other end answered. “Hi, is this Lincoln?” I asked. “Yes,” he said. “The Lincoln who played basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks?” “No,” the man replied. “This is his father.” Hey, that’s progress.

Cooking Q & A

Cooking Q and A: Safe storage and preparation of Christmas dinner
By Susan Krumm
December 20, 2011
Susan discusses the proper way to freeze and reheat mashed potatoes and turkey for easy transport.

Gwyn Mellinger

Longtime columnist says farewell
By Gwyn Mellinger
May 7, 2008
I always knew this moment would come, eventually, and that I would find myself writing my most difficult column. “Kitchen & Garden” has sprouted from my keyboard every week for more than 12 years - in the neighborhood of 650 columns - but the time has come to till it under and plant something new.

George Gurley

Capitalist system promotes change
By George Gurley
February 5, 2012
In the basement of the newspaper where I worked during the summers of my youth was a prodigious printing press, a rumbling monster that looked like the engine of a Mississippi River steamboat.

Marsha Henry Goff

Elections are meaner than they used to be
By Marsha Henry Goff
October 3, 2010
October is a great month … in off-election years. Unfortunately, this year isn’t one of them as evidenced by the ubiquitous, and often vicious, political commercials that cause us to gnash our teeth and mute our TVs.

Mike Hoeflich

Legislature should limit major initiatives
By Mike Hoeflich
February 8, 2012
It would appear that the governor and his staff members wish to remake some of the most essential and complex aspects of state government during this year’s legislative session. He has already given the Legislature plans to remake the state tax system and the school finance system, transform the present state retirement system (KPERS) from a defined-benefit plan to a defined-contribution plan, and put a cap on state spending through limiting the state’s ability to spend additional revenues beyond a certain fixed percentage.

Garden Calendar

Garden Calendar: USDA updates plant hardiness zone map
By Jennifer Smith
February 12, 2012
When gardeners talk about the zone, they are usually not referring to a new diet, defense tactics, or the mental state they reach while working in the garden.

Eileen Roddy

Slice of Life: Directing volunteers proves gratifying for LMH coordinator
By Eileen Roddy
November 21, 2011
The numbers she deals with are impressive. “We have an extraordinary group of volunteers,” says Allyson Leland, Lawrence Memorial Hospital’s director of volunteer services. “Last year our 869 volunteers contributed over 65,000 hours.”
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