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We keep hitting new lows. So perhaps we ought not be surprised that the GOP, the party that brought us the insurrection of Jan. 6, now presents the public, if figurative, execution of Liz Cheney. At this writing, she is not yet politically dead, but the vultures are certainly tying their ...
Lawrence and Douglas County have a chance to do economic development and do right. One of the community’s greatest, unfulfilled opportunities is Haskell Indian Nations University. It already is a great institution in many ways. It has a sense of community and common purpose that many ...
To the editor: The mantra “Everyone should pay their fair share in taxes” sounds good and plays well in the media, but there is a problem. Huge corporations hire platoons of lawyers and tax experts to find legal loopholes, authorized by Congress, in the tax laws that permit the ...
Recent events across our region — a local disagreement in Wichita, a statewide argument in Missouri, a veto override in Topeka with national implications — push me to reflect upon a seemingly straightforward but actually complicated idea: “democratic legitimacy.” This is one of those ...
Subsidized day care and universal pre-K are goals that sound so wholesome only a ghoul could oppose them. Especially in an era when Democrats and Republicans have achieved consensus that money grows on trees, who could possibly object to spending a few hundred billion or so, as Biden has ...
Its Constitution fixed the value of African Americans at three-fifths that of other humans. Its bloodiest war was over whether they should be enslaved. It has no institution — not one — that is free of racial discrimination. Yet, we are supposed to take seriously those who now ask if ...
By almost any measure, Joe Biden’s first 100 days as president have been hugely successful. Getting millions of Americans inoculated against COVID-19 and beginning to revive the economy are central to that success. Some two-thirds of Americans support Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, ...
If it doesn’t look like avocado toast, you can’t have it. That’s the message I get loud and clear from Uncle Sam when I read story after story about the Food and Drug Administration’s latest foray into stopping ordinary Americans from doing what ordinary Americans like to do. Take the ...
Thirty years ago, when I was still a music critic, I received a letter from a lady who informed me in no uncertain terms that I didn’t know what I was talking about. This was after I’d written about the origins of gospel music, a subject on which I considered myself, if not an expert, ...
In 1896, Emporia Gazette Editor William Allen White famously asked in an editorial “What’s the matter with Kansas?” Surely, one of the answers today is that not enough people want to live here. Kansas recently received its once-per-decade population figures from the U.S. Census. From ...
The recent death of Walter Mondale — vice president to President Jimmy Carter, and a presidential candidate himself in 1984 — has reminded me of some old history that may help explain Sen. Roger Marshall. The key to that history is one of Kansas’ great political figures, Bob Dole. In ...
An open letter to the children. We owe you an apology. Meaning all of us in the generations above you. We had one job where you were concerned, and that was to keep you safe. “Save the children,” pleaded a man named Marvin Gaye a long time ago. But we didn’t. We failed. And for ...
To the editor: Many people would be surprised that the oldest gated community in Lawrence is over 150 years old. It does not have a Home Owners Association, nor are there any yearly or monthly dues to pay to reside in it. However, there is a great deal of neglect in the gated community. ...
To the editor: This week there will be the last COVID vaccine clinics at the fairgrounds. There now will be daily clinics at LMH with no appointment necessary. I was fortunate to be able to work as a volunteer doing a variety of jobs at the fairgrounds. Each clinic required up to a couple of ...
To the editor: Every spring Justice Matters raises its collective voice in an effort to do justice. And while we don’t have the financial influence to impact the issues we address, we do have hundreds of passionate folks seeking justice in our region, as well as insights gained from ...
As of last week, more than 40% of Americans had received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine and 26% were fully vaccinated. Though it wasn’t planned this way, more normal human life is returning just as the redbuds, azaleas, magnolias and tulips are performing their gorgeous annual ...
Sorry, but this is not an open-and -shut case. This is not Tamir Rice, Philando Castile or Walter Scott, unarmed and clearly executed on camera by police. No, the bodycam video of Tuesday’s killing of a 16-year-old black girl named Ma’Khia Bryant tells a more complicated story. In it, we ...
Kansas has not gone to hell in a hand basket since 2015 — at least not for reasons related to guns. It was in 2015 when the state passed a law that you no longer had to get a state permit to carry a concealed firearm. Instead, Kansas adopted the philosophy of “constitutional carry,” ...
Anyone following American state politics this spring has witnessed, time and again, bizarre legislative proposals. Most notably and seriously, dozens of state legislatures have put forward an avalanche of initiatives that target transgender athletes and impose limitations on voting. Beyond ...
Look, I get it, OK? A lot of this, you plain do not understand. Much of it leaves you confused. Well, me too. I have no idea what it must be like to grow up feeling as if you were assigned the wrong body, a girl with boy genitalia or vice versa. I confess to being discombobulated at the idea ...
