Douglas County commissioners should slow down, accept delay and create a process to get proposals from entities that want to improve how indigent clients in the county’s criminal justice system receive legal representation. Commissioners should not speed ahead with approval of a proposal at ...

Here’s an experiment for Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, who recently criticized vaccine mandates as strategies that “tend not to work” in Kansas: Cancel the state-issued mandates for school children to be vaccinated against mumps, measles and rubella. Then, wait a couple of years and see if ...

In this Halloween season, it seems appropriate to write about a frightening topic. In America, threats to democracy and COVID-19 come to mind. For now, we’ll focus on COVID-19. Despite some improving numbers locally, plenty of scary signs remain. Here are a few. — More people are saying ...

County and city commissioners are correct that certain types of development near the edges of the Lawrence city limits can make it difficult and expensive for Lawrence to grow in an orderly fashion in the future. If you allow a significant number of 3 -to 5-acre homesites to be built along ...

Outrage is America’s hobby, and proof of that is the dangerous debate over paying college athletes. The latest on that front is that the top attorney for the National Labor Relations Board has determined that student-athletes should be classified as employees of universities. The board ...

It is not every community that you can go to a city commission meeting and have an art criticism class break out. But as you’ve surely surmised, Lawrence is not any community. Thus, city commissioners recently found themselves discussing a $340,000 proposal to build a piece of public art ...