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To the editor: Dear Kansas U.S. Senators and Representatives: If he is allowed to continue on his current path, he won’t have to primary you; your voters will do it for him — enough conservatives, all moderates and all liberals — even in conservative Kansas. And if he allows Russia to ...
To the editor: I just finished reading the AP article in the Journal-World stating that the Trump administration plans to cut foreign assistance funding through USAID by 90%. Trump is wagering that the American people don’t care about starving children in third-world countries. Is he ...
To the editor: As a resident of Lawrence, I am deeply concerned about the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its detrimental impact on our community. USAID has been instrumental in supporting Kansas farmers, including those in our region, by purchasing ...
Is America open for corruption now? Unabashedly? Nakedly? Are we tossing aside not just our hard-won victories over infectious diseases but also the more than hundred-year battle against fraud, bribery and graft? Honest, clean government doesn’t follow automatically from democracy. Before ...
For years now, I’ve tried to resist the temptation of writing a side-by-side comparison between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. I agreed with Abraham Foxman, the longtime head of the Anti-Defamation League, who said last year, “Comparing him to Hitler is an over-the-top exaggeration which ...
This legislative session, Kansas legislators are considering whether to restrict what low-income households can buy with their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits. Specifically, Senate Bill 79 requests authorization from the federal government to prohibit the use of ...
