Editorials

Views from Kansas: WSU was right on Ivanka talk

Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. What to make of the imbroglio around Wichita State University president Jay Golden? To recap, presidential daughter Ivanka Trump was briefly invited to deliver a ...

Views from Kansas: Senators trash Constitution

Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Republicans in the Kansas Senate have managed to squeeze a number of bad decisions into a short special session. Recently, they even denied a judgeship to a respected ...

Editorial: The City of Lawrence can take steps right now to ease racial tensions

As everything from protests to riots coursed through the nation’s streets, U.S. mayors have uttered words that should be remembered. “We are asking for peace, not patience,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said, paraphrasing a similar call from her colleague in St. Paul, Minn. ...

Editorial: Do we really want to live in a world where Twitter is the fact checker?

It has been clear for awhile now that Twitter executives prefer communicating in short bursts of 280 characters. Evidently, they keep their deep thinking within those parameters too. Twitter last week took an action against the president and some of his tweets, apparently in an effort to show ...