Opinion

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Letter to the editor: Chancellor’s Trump help ‘pathetic’

To the editor: The buzz of election results has pushed to the back burner Chancellor Doug Girod's actions to help craft a guidance letter for the Trump administration's Department of Education. Nevertheless, Girod's pathetic behavior requires a response. My friends at KU Med tell me that as a ...

Letter to the editor: Bob Billings project doesn’t add up

To the editor: Residents on streets adjoining Bob Billings west of Kasold have been waiting more than a month for work to recommence on a reconstruction project that began in the spring, one of many such projects around town. An LJW article published on July 16 quoted a source indicating ...

Letter to the editor: Tax cap needs changes

To the editor: The $350,000 home valuation cap for the Homestead program was added in 2007 (19 years ago), while the SAFESR program itself was created shortly after in 2008 with the same $350,000 valuation cap built into it. The value of our homes drastically increase every year, while the ...

Opinion: Socialism is on the right, too

The Democratic Socialists of America released their platform last month, and let’s give them credit for candor. They want public ownership of large corporations, the abolition of police and prisons, a defunded Pentagon and open borders. Conservatives read that document and saw the future they ...

Opinion: Richard Nixon doesn’t look so bad anymore

On an August day way back when in 1974, the president of the United States resigned, and my mother disappeared. She didn’t take any of us kids with her and didn’t say where she was going. But she was gone for a couple of hours. The day that Richard Nixon finally faced mounting public ...