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- Opinion: Why gay role models matter May 23, 2013 · 43 comments
- Long-term plan suggests toll lanes on K-10 corridor May 23, 2013 · 52 comments
- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013 · 60 comments
- Former area Boy Scouts react to decision allowing gay scouts May 24, 2013 · 17 comments
- Club Magic manager says he's trying to turn around a new business at an old, and troubled, location May 25, 2013 · 2 comments
- Blog: GOP tax plans would increase taxes on low-wage Kansans, decrease taxes for high-income Kansans, report says May 23, 2013 · 30 comments
- On the street: Do you agree with the Boy Scouts of America decision to allow gay scouts? May 25, 2013 · 1 comment
- On the street: Should residents or businesses who use too much water be fined? May 24, 2013 · 19 comments
- Wichita might fine residents over use of water May 24, 2013 · 15 comments
- 59 minors, several local businesses, cited for alcohol violations in state regulator's patrols in May May 23, 2013 · 29 comments
- Former Lawrence resident Sri Srinivasan confirmed for prestigious D.C. Court of Appeals May 23, 2013
- Doctor finds 'A Healthier Wei' to treat kids May 14, 2013
- Editorial: Hometown pride May 21, 2013
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
- Opinion: Firebirds’ window for state softball title not shut May 24, 2013
- Wildflower Walk set for Saturday May 24, 2013
- Proposed cuts to corrections system could endanger Kansans, secretary says May 24, 2013
- Lawrence man pleads guilty to bank robbery; 52-month sentence recommended May 20, 2013
Haskell School of Education gains national accreditation
This is indeed good news!
As number3of5 said, there has been a lot of hard work and dedication by both students and faculty into making this program a success.
May 2, 2013 at 12:10 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Cole Aldrich completes KU degree in NBA, will graduate this month
Congratulations to Cole Aldrich on a great accomplishment!
May 1, 2013 at 9:21 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
It’s official: Brownback signs bill saying life begins at fertilization
An aside to the comments above.
Earlier I commented on free will, saying something like its being the next thing to be legislated out of existence in Kansas as it appears The Guv doesn't want Kansans to have free will. This essentially because The Guv and his minions can't understand that freedom of religion and freedom also means freedom from religion. It doesn't mean freedom of religion as long as it's his.
(Is anybody else having posts removed for essentially benign comments?)
April 24, 2013 at 8:42 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Dr. Brownback?
@notsobright
Nobody engaged in an ad hominem attack against you. This is an example of such an attack and I find nothing like it above.
http://youtu.be/cAy4zULKFDU
April 23, 2013 at 6:44 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Dr. Brownback?
Why?
April 23, 2013 at 12:44 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Dr. Brownback?
@notsobright
Well done. In response to sarcasm you hit several scientifically unsupported talking points and invoked a Godwin.
Congratulations.
April 23, 2013 at 6:47 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opponents of drug testing for welfare benefits see it as hassling the poor; Brownback says it will help
Or 2, unless we can get rid of The Guv and his minions.
April 22, 2013 at 9:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opponents of drug testing for welfare benefits see it as hassling the poor; Brownback says it will help
Hmmm. A post I made a few minutes ago was deleted because evidently because I used some common slang. I changed the wording. Here's the amended post.
From the article
"But unlike the Kansas law, Florida's requires all welfare applicants take a drug test, instead of only those with a "reasonable suspicion" of drug use."
On the surface this looks "benign" for want of a better word. However, who determines the "reasonable suspicion?" Will The Guv hire someone new from Florida (as he has before) to determine reasonable suspicion? What recourse does someone have if they're taking a prescribed medication that causes them to test positive. Additionally, there's evidence that eating poppy seeds in food (bagels, lemon poppy seed muffin, etc) will cause the same thing. What's next on the agenda, making those applying for TANF maintain a food diary? All this for $282 a month.
Unemployment is another matter. Most applications are made on line with updates on line. What is Brownbackistan going to do in this case, randomly force people to go to a clinic to be tested, then wait until the results are sent to the State for review? I know seasonal employees who are out of work for 2 or 3 month because of lack of work; they can draw unemployment. Is The Guv going to require them to be tested?
I wonder if they'll establish a political / theocratic purity test to determine who will be tested. Sounds like something The Guv would do. Similar to what the KS DOL was rumored to be doing with interviews right after he took office.
April 22, 2013 at 8:50 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Offended voter
The incidences of voter fraud indicate to me there's no need for such a a law other than to suppress voters.
Here's some interesting articles about the flood of voter fraud cases.
(http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/deb...)
Brennan Center for Justice response to a WSJ Op-Ed by Kobach. (Jun 2011). Claim 4 in the response speaks specifically to your comment.
"Kobach mischaracterizes events to suggest the existence of voter fraud. Those events, when fully examined, frequently demonstrate no malfeasance and certainly do not suggest any intentional act to steal votes or undermine the electoral process. Kobach relies upon data about “reported” events and “allegations” of problems with no reference to actual prosecutions, arrests or actual findings of voter malfeasance."
NY Times Editorial:
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/opi...)
" In Kansas, the secretary of state, Kris Kobach (who also wrote Arizona’s notorious anti-immigrant law), pushed for an ID law on the basis of a list of 221 reported instances of voter fraud in Kansas since 1997. Even if that were true, it would be an infinitesimal percentage of the votes cast during that period, but it is not true.
When The Wichita Eagle looked into the local cases on the list, the newspaper found that almost all were honest mistakes: a parent trying to vote for a student away at college, or signatures on mail-in ballots that didn’t precisely match those on file. In one case of supposed “fraud,” a confused non-citizen was asked at the motor vehicles bureau whether she wanted to fill out a voter registration form, and did so not realizing she was ineligible to vote."
April 12, 2013 at 3:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Offended voter
You're not denied your franchise as a citizen of Kansas and the US. The poll worker was in fact doing her job (as related in the letter).
The voter ID burden is not onerous, especially in Douglas County. The County Clerk's office issues Voter IDs to those who require one. They even travel to different parts of the county to reach out. Doesn't sound so onerous to me.
What part of provisional ballot do you not understand? The process has been explained above. If you have further questions, go talk with the County Clerk.
What part of being required to comply with a state law do you not understand?
April 12, 2013 at 9:36 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )