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The White House Correspondents’ Dinner this weekend is the hottest ticket in town, but a tempest is brewing among journalists on Donald J. Trump’s presence at the posh gathering. This is a moment in the tales of our embattled city. It will be Trump’s first time at the dinner, a chance ...
Kansas was born arguing. Before it became a state, before there was a Capitol dome in Topeka, the Kansas Territory was consumed by a defining question: whether it would enter the Union free or slave. That struggle played out through elections, conventions, newspapers, and public meetings, ...
It’s not news that a man in Washington sits atop one of the three branches of government who interprets the Constitution as it suits him, disregards precedent and asserts he knows better than any experts. He has undone key Obama-era initiatives and tolerated glaring conflicts of interest ...
To the editor: For many years I have been concerned about the “go to” economic strategy called “GROWTH”. This basically means annexing city land and expanding infrastructure for development or adding more population density to existing parts of the city, thus increasing the population ...
To the editor: In 2015, during the Obama Administration, a historic peace treaty with Iran was achieved after 20 months of intensive negotiation. It insured that Iran, under rigorous inspections would refrain from developing a nuclear weapon. This was a remarkable diplomatic achievement, ...
To the editor: I’ve been reading about the current president’s plan for a monument to honor him. How do I keep him from using any of my tax money to pay for this travesty? Sharon L. Hettinger, Lawrence