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I was at the Lawrence Regional Airport last month for a meeting when the door flew open and someone asked if any of us knew CPR. A man had collapsed by his airplane and wasn't breathing. We ran outside into the heat. Somebody had 911 on speakerphone, and a voice was coming out of that phone ...
Kansans have a palpable hunger to do something. The times feel strange, the anger relentless, the cruelty almost casual. Most of us look around at the Kansans we encounter, whether at work, in the grocery store, at church, just walking down the street, and we think, they don’t seem angry or ...
There’s a 2.93-acre property at 1501 Learnard Ave. that used to be a greenhouse — a quirky old structure tucked into a quiet Lawrence neighborhood. You’ve probably driven past it without thinking too much about it, but it’s one of those rare spaces that could become anything. A ...
More than 50 years ago, a horrifying moment inside a Kansas nursing home sparked a movement that would change the state. While reading to a nursing home resident, Lawrence advocate Anna “Petey” Cerf heard the woman’s roommate call out in pain. A nurse entered the room and snapped, “Oh ...
In theater spaces across the country, the rehearsal room has long served as a space of welcome and discovery, especially for queer and nonbinary voices. At its best, theater offers a place where we learn about ourselves, each other and the world we share. It’s a space where authenticity is ...
To a drug dealer: I’m not sure what leads someone in life to become a drug dealer. I assume it is greed. I certainly don’t know what leads someone to become a dealer of fentanyl, a drug that inevitably and undeniably ultimately leads to death. There is no way around it — if you are a ...