Your Turn

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Your Turn: On Nov. 5, let’s bring our conscience to the voting booth

As a pastor of the United Church of Christ, I inherit a liberal faith tradition. By liberal I mean a faith that is not static, chiseled in stone or received from on high. Instead, it is more like a conversation between transcendent truths and the complexities of life. Truths are forged on the ...

Your Turn: Don’t move City Hall out of downtown Lawrence

Recently the city staff has received a recommendation from their site consultant to secure a new site for the location of City Hall. The site being recommended is the former Sally Mae site, located on the bluffs near Sixth and Iowa streets. This was a huge surprise to many of us. Allow me to ...

Your Turn: Social Work Licensure Compact puts Kansas’ mental health first

Kansas ranked last in the “State of Mental Health in America 2023” report. The need for improved mental health care is impossible to ignore. Kansas took an important step to create social worker jobs and facilitate care across the state by joining the Social Work Licensure Compact in ...

Your Turn: Proposed cuts put residents, firefighters at risk

In the early morning of July 5, 2018, a fire started in the kitchen of a second floor apartment in Lawrence, Kansas. Quickly, superheated gasses and smoke rose up a stairwell. When an upstairs neighbor opened their front door to investigate the odor, the smoke and heat rushed into his ...