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“Don’t it always seem to go,” Joni Mitchell wrote decades ago, “that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?” Last week’s Senate passage of legislation authorizing new sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s Russia was much-ballyhooed, but much ado about little: The most ...
Here we go again. We’re approaching another presidential campaign year, and once again I am reminded of what the great sage Will Rogers said back in 1933: “I am not a member of any organized political party,” he said. “I am a Democrat.” Yes, I know that Rogers quote is old ...
To the editor: The buzz of election results has pushed to the back burner Chancellor Doug Girod's actions to help craft a guidance letter for the Trump administration's Department of Education. Nevertheless, Girod's pathetic behavior requires a response. My friends at KU Med tell me that as a ...
To the editor: Residents on streets adjoining Bob Billings west of Kasold have been waiting more than a month for work to recommence on a reconstruction project that began in the spring, one of many such projects around town. An LJW article published on July 16 quoted a source indicating ...
To the editor: The $350,000 home valuation cap for the Homestead program was added in 2007 (19 years ago), while the SAFESR program itself was created shortly after in 2008 with the same $350,000 valuation cap built into it. The value of our homes drastically increase every year, while the ...
To the editor: Jamie Stiehm’s column of Aug. 9 about Richard Nixon transported me back to August 1974 as my family gathered around our portable black and white television to watch a president resign. Living in northern Virginia, we were inundated with Watergate coverage from nearby ...