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- Opinion: Scandals undermine trust in Obama May 19, 2013 · 33 comments
- Lawhorn's Lawrence: A night of partying in Oread May 19, 2013 · 43 comments
- KU student killed in crash on U.S. Highway 59 May 17, 2013 · 41 comments
- Opinion: Benghazi triggers a major credibility crisis May 18, 2013 · 48 comments
- Opinion: Benghazi, IRS: Son of Watergate? May 15, 2013 · 113 comments
- Missouri man dies of injuries after Saturday motorcycle accident May 18, 2013 · 18 comments
- Gas prices approach record highs May 18, 2013 · 34 comments
- Senate approves bill banning use of tax dollars to advocate for gun control May 17, 2013 · 60 comments
- On the street: Would you rather have a lower income tax and higher sales tax, or lower sales tax and higher income tax? May 17, 2013 · 39 comments
- Graduation brings a boom weekend for local businesses before the quieter days of summer May 18, 2013 · 5 comments
- Sun shines on KU graduates' smiles as they celebrate commencement May 19, 2013
- Lawhorn's Lawrence: A night of partying in Oread May 19, 2013
- Kansas Court of Appeals rules Martin Miller should get new murder trial February 10, 2012
- Mother, son to graduate from KU together Sunday May 18, 2013
- Trio of Lawrence road projects to begin on Monday May 19, 2013
- Two Topeka men shot in Lawrence early Sunday morning; police seeking persons of interest May 19, 2013
- KU student killed in crash on U.S. Highway 59 May 17, 2013
- KU student sues Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, alleging underage drinking led to head injury March 19, 2013
- Kansas baseball’s Piché named to reliever watch list April 24, 2013
- Gas prices approach record highs May 18, 2013
Affordable Care Act bringing jobs to Lawrence
Jobs, despite right wing rhetoric, are created by DEMAND for a product or service. It matters not who creates the demand, whether it is private or public. And for Ultimate..."Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized Society".
May 16, 2013 at 12:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Firepower
A couple of footnotes about the founding fathers and the right to bear arms. Have you been to Williamsburg? There you will see in the middle of an intersection, an interesting building called an armory. Its where the British forced the colonists to keep their weapons. The second amendment gave the new citizens the right to keep them and to be trained in a militia. After all, there were native Americans and Frenchmen to occasionally battle, and in 1812, the British. The idea of defending against the tyranny of the government as an excuse to oppose any control of weapons is made up from whole cloth. It was never the intent. Some of the strident anti-gun leaders have been such renowned liberals as Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin. Mitt Romney signed a ban on assault weapons as Governor of Massachusetts, but its Obama that everyone is afraid of. Paranoid much?
May 11, 2013 at 8:33 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Faulty arguments
Actually we are better off without companies that only offer <30 hour a week minimum wage jobs.
April 30, 2013 at 11:44 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Faulty arguments
Jobs that pay minimum wage and less than 40 hours a week so as to avoid being part of the ACA. It is an unfortunate part of human nature to believe that better bargains, greener grass so to speak always exist somewhere else. No one need to shop outside of Lawrence, the choose to and likely would regardless of what businesses are located here. I would rather live in a somewhat business cautious Lawrence than Olathe West.
April 30, 2013 at 8:07 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: Rand Paul misses the point at Howard
Why would he disavow that in which he believes?
April 22, 2013 at 12:13 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opponents of drug testing for welfare benefits see it as hassling the poor; Brownback says it will help
Lets look at the record. Florida did the same thing. Results...98% of recipients were clean. The cost per drug user amounted to around $168,000 of state funds spent. Fairness is not the issue, cost effectiveness is. This is a feel good plan that will accomplish absolutely nothing. Are there constitutional issues, you bet. But the main thing that should irritate the public is the complete waste of public funds, unless you own the testing contract, then you make out like a bandit.
April 22, 2013 at 12:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Brownback signs into law measure making KDOT secretary the director of operations of Kansas Turnpike
Step one in making the turnpike as bad as the typical road in Missouri. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Just another day in Brownbackistan.
April 19, 2013 at 12:38 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Roberts, Moran vote against expanded background checks in gun sales
I want one person to logically and rationally explain why increased background checks is a bad thing...just one. Why should I be able to go to a gun show and without even showing an ID purchase a weapon? Why shouldn't gun show purchases be subject to a real background check? Background checks have nothing whatsoever to do with the Second amendment. I want to know why those who stand with the cowards in the Senate do so? Both of the Senators from Kansas are cowards, pure and simple. They would rather kowtow to the NRA than represent the wishes of their state. Every time a person is killed with a weapon that was purchased legally without a background check, these cowards should have to explain to the remaining family why they voted the way they did. It is a disgrace.
April 18, 2013 at 1:31 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Letter: Ticking debt
One must also look at to whom the debt is owed. Over 70% is owed to ourselves. The balance to various foreign governments. Offsetting the 30% is that the US owns foreign assets worth more than that amount. We do not have a short or medium term debt problem, what we have is an unemployment problem. If we could stimulate the economy and put people back to work the deficits and debt would take care of themselves. We are still a demand based economy (no apologies to Arthur Laffer).
April 15, 2013 at 7:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Opinion: We must save our children from guns
Some here need t take a long look in the mirror and realize that they are what they accuse the writer of...racist. If you think that thorough background checks for all gun purchases, including gun shows won't reduce crime committed with guns you are nucking futs. Nearly every weapon used in a crime in NYC, which has some very restrictive gun laws, came from one of two places, Virginia or Florida where they were legally purchased and then resold to criminals. There are perfunctory background checks in those states, but no waiting period for results. Maybe some of you ought to go out and purchase the late Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin On" album and listen to the lyrics. What you would realize is that 40 years after it was written and produced, much of what he sings about still haunts the US. Ironically Marvin Gaye was killed with a gun owned and operated by his father.
April 1, 2013 at 8:36 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )