The Washington Post, beginning Nov. 1, 2019, will allow its syndicated columns to appear only in print. The columns will still be available as part of our e-edition newspaper online, but they will not be available as separate pieces on our website, ljworld.com. These columnists include George Will, David Ignatius, Michael Gerson and others. This does not affect other columnists like Leonard Pitts, Mona Charen, Connie Schultz and Mark Shields, who are not affiliated with the Washington Post.
The federal government just closed fiscal year 2026 with a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to figures the Congressional Budget Office released earlier this month. Only the two pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were worse. Today, though, there is no recession and no emergency. These ...
Once upon a time, a theory made waves in political science courses that it didn’t matter who the president was because the U.S. government was so mighty that it would run itself without any one person in charge. That’s ridiculous. I hope that professor lived to see what hell we’re ...
I can’t seem to get Costco off my mind. The thoughts are about $80 million deep. As I wrote last week, that’s a conservative estimate of how much money the store — which opens in northwest Lawrence on Oct. 29 — will send to the state of Kansas in sales tax dollars over the next 20 ...
Why on earth did Ford stop making its heralded electric truck? As Americans shudder at high gasoline prices, prospective truck buyers are lining up at car lots to buy used F-150 Lightning and other electric vehicles. Ford stopped making the F-150 Lightning last December. There are several ...
To the editor: I live in Lawrence, Kansas, and am represented by Tracey Mann and Roger Marshall. Although Lawrence and Western Kansas differ, agriculture connects us. I grew up on a Kansas farm and still maintain an ownership interest in our family farm. I understand the importance of keeping ...
To the editor: On nearly this same date in 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London from Munich waving a piece of paper signed by Adolf Hitler pledging permanent peace for Britain, Europe and the world. The price of peace was giving part of Czechoslovakia to ...
