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 ...
Moments and monumental decisions can be tough partners. That is why it is wise to exercise caution when making big decisions in the heat of a moment. Douglas County commissioners deserve credit for coming to that conclusion about a proposed expansion of the Douglas County Jail. When it ...
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. ...
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 ...
No matter how well-crafted, the point on an analogy is duller than a point on a bullet. Anyone who has been struck by both will attest to that, if they have the chance. Thus, while America is currently engaged in an epic struggle, it is not at war. War is war. Little else accurately compares. ...
If ever there was a year that we would have good vision, you would think it would be 2020. But this year already has proven that when it comes to seeing the future, we have anything but 20/20 vision. The Class of 2020 has been affected by this fact of the human condition more than any other ...
We all are becoming familiar with the list of symptoms associated with the COVID-19 disease. There’s the fever, the loss of smell and taste, the cough, the loss of energy, the feeling that an anvil is sitting upon your chest and several more. One that hasn’t gotten as much attention: a ...
When it comes to college athletics, university presidents have every reason to be driving the steamroller, yet they continuously and haplessly end up in front of it. Big-time college athletics could do much to help fund higher education, but it would require university presidents forcing ...
The best thing on television right now, actually, is a commercial. It is the one created by the drug manufacturer Pfizer, and its theme is “Science will win.” “At a time when things are most uncertain,” the commercial begins, “we turn to the most certain thing there is: science.” ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. When talking about the effects of the new coronavirus on the African American community in Kansas, we should begin by making two points crystal clear. First, there ...
There are plenty of business people who would salivate at the prospect of forcing government to pay for cost overruns every time a confusing government regulation adds expense to a business project. Think of this example, which happens multiple times a year, even in our small community: A ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Kansas leaders, the time has come. Our state needs to switch to a mail-in election system, for primary and general elections. That’s a sweeping statement, we ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Cellphone footage of what one inmate correctly labeled the “mayhem” at Lansing Correctional Facility last week shows prisoners trashing the place while cursing ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. When the Kansas Legislature comes back to Topeka, it will undoubtedly take up the topic of aid to citizens impacted by our current circumstances. Expanding Medicaid is ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. A biochemistry professor at Kansas State University has exactly the right idea: Kansas should aggressively test as many people as possible for the coronavirus. In a ...
The Journal-World recently reported on a fun and elaborate yard sign that was placed in front of Lawrence Memorial Hospital, thanking the health care workers inside. Such signs in Lawrence could be more common than leaves in the fall or red Solo cups in Oread during Hawk Week. In other words, ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. As the new coronavirus spreads, it has exposed a variety of societal vulnerabilities. For example, giant cities have seen how their long-touted lifestyle — packing ...
When it comes to loosening our social-distance requirements and other measures designed to fight COVID-19, the country should take its guidance from health experts, not President Donald Trump. That said, it is wise for public leaders — both Republicans and Democrats — to start talking ...
The University of Kansas and several other government entities and businesses in the Lawrence area deserve credit for how they are treating their employees during these trying times. KU leaders came out relatively quickly to explain that employees of the university will continue to be paid, ...
There are times where it is particularly important to practice the three P’s in life: patience, perseverance and perspective. We’ve come to one of those times as our country and communities confront new realities in the face of the coronavirus. The virus has disrupted ordinary and ...