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To the editor: If Lawrence were to build a more thorough cycling infrastructure, would more residents use bikes for basic transportation? While I heartily endorse multimodal transportation advocate Bill Steele’s recommendation that Kentucky and Tennessee Streets be reduced to one-lane car ...
To the editor: The Sustainability Action Network and its members are spot-on when they say Lawrence streets are overbuilt. The last few years have shown the truth of this, as city life has continued smoothly despite successive construction projects closed or reduced car lanes on first 23rd ...
To the editor: U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall in a press release on June 23 reports that “The One Big, Beautiful Bill puts an extra $1,000 a month back in your pocket — now that’s money for groceries, for gas, or your kids’ school supplies.” In the same press release he reports that ...
To the editor: So we wake on a balmy, warm Sunday morning to find we are at war with Iran; maybe not a formally declared one, but a war just the same. Why? Not that I want anyone to have, threaten to use or actually use nuclear weapons, but does this action really help protect the world? Or ...
To the editor: Let’s call the “Big Beautiful Bill” what it really is: 1. A stealth bill that hides items within its 900 pages that will never be debated on their own merits. 2. An upward transfer of wealth. The wealthy get an enormous tax cut while the poor are deprived of vital ...
To the editor: I am sickened that Trump has attacked Iran, as an act of war. No approval from Congress, which is unconstitutional. I am not shocked that Trump did this without thinking of the many dangerous consequences. He is using his power as a wannabe dictator. This will also be a ...