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- Tarik Black strong, physical May 22, 2013
- City accepts recreation center bids, but won' t proceed with building until Fritzel provides infrastructure costs May 21, 2013
- Opinion: Scandals undermine trust in Obama May 19, 2013
- Opinion: Wayne Selden sizes up recruits May 21, 2013
- Editorial: Judicial joust May 22, 2013
- House Republican leaders propose 1.5 percent cut to higher education for each of next two fiscal years May 21, 2013
- Fix-It Chick: Gutter repair May 20, 2013
- KU makes sudden change in Statehouse presence May 20, 2013
- Budget cuts force Head Start to close Edgewood Homes facility May 21, 2013
- LHS student earns perfect ACT score May 21, 2013
Lawrence social worker helps patients live their own lives
I support patient directed self-determination, especially for those who have had much control taken from them b/c of illness and group living. Having said that many care protocols are in place for good reasons (safety, improved cognition,disease management , etc); a collaborative approach between providers and clients, clarifying priorities, treatment side effects/costs can work best. I'm sure the "they don't have to take their meds" statement was a little more complex and nuanced (if not, that's a problem). Sounds like she has lots of enthusiasm and energy. I liken this approach to my experience with caring for dying patients in the bad old days when docs were overly concerned with addiction potential to pain rx: what difference does it make when someone is dying? Comfort is much more important.
May 15, 2013 at 2:44 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
No concealed carry in Lawrence schools
ALL Presidents as well as other high elected officials have secret svc protection whether they want it or not (the Bush girls didn't want it b/c it interfered w their hijinks, but they got it anyway)...you always trot this lame "argument " out like it 's special treatment for this particular President...get over yrself.
May 4, 2013 at 10:21 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
School board studies 'critical race theory' in work on equity issues
Too exhausting to take you to task on everything you've said, but I will start by calling you out on your screen-name, which seems to be a misnomer to say the least.
I am intrigued at your comment about "ancient history"...ask any young person of color if Driving While Black (or fill in the non-white color) esp if male is a phenom of the past. You will never experience what it is like to be assumed to be a thug, uneducated, guilty until proven innocent simply for daring to breathe the same air as any white person.
I believe you are the one calling people names, ie liberal, liberal, liberal. Not sure what is uniquely LIBERAL (a BAD thing apparently, despite your moniker) about wanting to become more aware as educators so as to equalize opportunities.
There is a difference between saying each white person is actively racist versus our entire SOCIETY is saturated with ideas of white supremacy, that it pervades every aspect of our culture at a deep and often entirely unconscious level...so noone is saying that every white person believes and acts in a racist way all the time, but those attitudes are there, insidiously pervasive in the society as a whole. And you have the audacity to dismiss the immensity of the challenge to shift those attitudes.
I find it ironic that you disparage academics , but are happy to trot out undocumented numbers and statistics in an effort to revile people of color, their morals, their intelligence, their level of motivation to get ahead.
I've given your inner angry , threatened white man too much energy already.
May 4, 2013 at 9:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
School board studies 'critical race theory' in work on equity issues
What is BASIC education depends on where you are starting from; I grew up in a home surrounded with books and magazines and although my parents could not attend college there made unbelievable sacrifices so I would be college ready. I could read at a late grade school level before I went to kindergarten. I never went to school hungry, lived in the same house from birth to college graduation and was surrounded by 4 loving adults. Many of my school peers both poor whites, as well as kids of color did not have the exceptional opportunities I did...and that affects us all thruout our lives. You can disparage corrective measures as fluff or social engineering or income redistribution , which only shows your ignorance of the lived, on the ground reality of many students, even in socially well-insulated Lawrence. You would rather blame the victims , say those bad old days are over and pull yourself up by your bootstraps....if you are left behind it must be because you deserve it.
May 4, 2013 at 9:07 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Gun ‘rights’
I believe the law requiring background checks was "defeated soundly and easily" in contrast to 90% of the public supporting such legislation b/c there is almost NO connection between legislators' votes and what their constituents support. Big moneyed contributors and corporate interests own most legislators and they will do their masters' bidding to get elected over and over. And Republicans and their more nefarious allies will do anything to deny Democrats and especially the President a legislative victory, even if it breaks the entire country, as with the sequester.
May 4, 2013 at 8:42 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Gun ‘rights’
"most Americans loved Reagan." not by a long shot; oh, sorry, about the pun, particularly in light of my next comment; to whit, Reagan may have supported the Brady Bill since he himself had been the subject of an assasination attempt. But who knows, he had a very loose association with the truth, talking frequently out of both sides of his mouth (Iran Contra, railing against big gubmint and spending while massively increasing both size and expenditures).
May 4, 2013 at 8:34 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
U.S. Attorney General Holder tells Brownback new gun law is unconstitutional
wow, if public officials got jailed for incompetence, we'd run out of jails real quick.
May 3, 2013 at 7:16 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Evil deeds
Christians cloak themselves in self-righteous piety; that is the "card" they consciously or unconsciously use to trump other lines of argument; in KS, in much of the South, etc. all you have to do to win the argument is mention your Christian beliefs (practice is not required) and you have moved to the head of the line. For a country that espouses independence of thought and diversity, I find this bias highly objectionable; don't prattle to me about how you Christians are persecuted and how you're sick of others foisting their belief systems on you (ie jhawkins earlier comment about being sick of left-wingers, gun control, pro-choice proponents forcing their ideas on others).
May 3, 2013 at 7:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Former state representative Solbach critically injured after ATV and car collide
I find it "inappropriate" to make snarky, fault-finding comments when people's lives hang in the balance, or worse. I don't get people who come on this board over and over when there's been an accident, even a fatality and start pontificating about somebody being at fault, being reckless, etc...I just think it's in incredibly bad taste. I've known several people who died in this community, a few at their own hand, others in accidents and people who did not know the individual or the circumstances came on here and made all kinds of stupid, insensitive comments. It's really just unbelievable what people feel free to let loose with on the internet....I am a person of strong opinions, but try to engage with others with civility, and in some cases not at all, as in "Don't speak ill of the dead."
April 23, 2013 at 8:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
No concealed carry in Lawrence schools
carrying a gun in a classroom is not a 'human right".our personal rights are limited by "some committee or board" all the time in civilization...uh, last time I checked a fork is not a lethal weapon...faulty comparison. Leave the firearms to the school police officer...many if not most CC people have minimal training, apparently there are no requirements for ongoing continuing education and demonstrated ability, like teachers and other professionals are required to obtain. Unfortunately the law that has been passed by our poor excuse of a Gov and legislature does not even impose the minimal restrictions that you do, ie allowing only teachers to carry...I fear when the university community joins this reprehensible group...just what we don't need is a bunch of hormonal adolescents whose brains aren't even fully developed yet, packing on campus.
April 23, 2013 at 7:48 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )