The Washington Post, beginning Nov. 1, 2019, will allow its syndicated columns to appear only in print. The columns will still be available as part of our e-edition newspaper online, but they will not be available as separate pieces on our website, ljworld.com. These columnists include George Will, David Ignatius, Michael Gerson and others. This does not affect other columnists like Leonard Pitts, Mona Charen, Connie Schultz and Mark Shields, who are not affiliated with the Washington Post.
To the editor: Nice to hear about the man who traveled to receive a major lung transplant. I, too, am a transplant recipient, though less dramatically. I am grateful to the folks who willed their eyes to the eye bank. I am free to drive, to care for my husband and for my grandson. So, ...
The presidential primaries are unfolding quietly. Having clinched their party nominations early, President Joe Biden and Donald Trump have shifted focus toward the general election. Yet all is not well. From the start, a stubborn and sizeable percentage of Democratic and Republican ...
Growing restrictions on the right to an abortion have revived talk of what many still regard as a highly controversial theory. It holds that the legalization of abortion in 1973 reduced the number of unwanted children, who might have been at higher risk of committing serious crimes. And that ...
After Iran’s massive drone and missile attack on Israel Saturday, President Biden reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “You got a win. Take the win.” Most of the weapons, the first Iran had ever fired on Israel from its own territory, were successfully ...
To the editor: On Saturday I had the privilege of participating in a truly American exercise in democracy, as the Douglas County Commission heard testimony from both sides on the commercial solar development north of town. While the commission reached the wrong decision (from my viewpoint) ...
To the editor: Which way are we going? If the number of stores in Lawrence doubled tomorrow there would not be a doubling of sales or sales taxes going to the city. There are only so many people living here and they only have a set amount of money to spend, no matter how many stores we ...
