Opinion

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Opinion: Finding resilience in the face of disability

On the Sunday evening of Labor Day weekend, after a delightful dinner with close friends, I tripped over one of those ubiquitous electric rent-a-scooters. I went down hard, landing on my knee and arm, though luckily not hitting my head. At home that night, I couldn’t even bend my left elbow ...

Opinion: Rebuilding civic trust in Kansas

Along with a few of my academic colleagues, I organize our university’s Constitution Day event around Sept. 17 — the anniversary of the completion of the proposed U.S. Constitution at the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 — each year. Constitution Day doesn’t get the ...

Letter to the editor: Apologize or end rivalry

To the editor: I'm 73 and I've been going to KU football games since I was a kid off and on, and I for one don't think it's worth it, and for the reasons you mentioned. But I have a caveat to that: Has the state of Missouri ever issued a formal apology to the state of Kansas for what ...