In a town that thrives on young college students, it would be easy enough to forget about those residents on the opposite end of the age spectrum: senior citizens. It is a credit to our community that we have not done so. The latest example that Lawrence cares about our senior citizens can be ...
Imagine if Alexander Graham Bell had another idea when he invented the telephone: Third parties could listen in on the phone calls and use the information from your conversations to sell you other goods and services. Such activity today would be illegal in America, and if the telephone ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Folks in the Hutchinson region recently experienced unsettling jolts in a series of earthquakes, the worst of which was a magnitude 4.2. With an epicenter about three ...
Lawrence city commissioners deserve credit for hitting the pause button on a proposed growth plan that could, unintentionally, make our community a less affordable place to live. At their meeting last week, commissioners declined to give final approval to Plan 2040, the proposed comprehensive ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Overall, it makes abundant sense for Kansas to collect sales tax paid on internet purchases. The Supreme Court has paved the way for such a move, and it just makes ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Joe Camel died over 20 years ago, but the tobacco mascot’s child-enticing spirit has hauntingly returned in the form of vaping — the growing use of ...
Maybe money doesn’t make the world go around, but it sure ought to make some mouths move more at Lawrence City Hall. It is becoming clear that Lawrence city commissioners don’t spend enough time monitoring and publicly discussing the city’s finances. Properly monitoring and managing the ...
The University of Kansas’ fall sports season is underway, which means the debates among fans have heated up. That is fine, as one of the purposes of sport is to give us something to argue about that isn’t of life-or-death consequences. However, athletic competition — with the strain it ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. For Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, approving the compensation Lamonte McIntyre is owed should not be a tough call. After all, the 42-year-old Kansas City, ...
Sonny Perdue is the U.S. secretary of Agriculture, which makes him a full-time Trump toady. But come to find out, he’s also a part-time comedian. Perhaps you haven’t heard about his latest gig. According to national reports, Perdue earlier this month was the speaker at a Farmfest event in ...
Douglas County is blessed in many ways, and one of them, currently, is that it is predisposed to growth. We should be thankful the things that keep Douglas County leaders awake at night are different than the nightmares in most Kansas counties. Here, we fret over downtown Lawrence not having ...
As evidenced by their support for mental health care and social services in general, Douglas County commissioners certainly are kindhearted. But they aren’t always business-minded. That was highlighted in their regrettable decision to seemingly forgo a search process to find the next county ...
More bad news at the Lawrence Community Shelter shouldn’t lead to yet another discussion about how much more money local governments should give to the shelter. It should lead to a more in-depth discussion about what local governments can do beyond money to help the shelter, which provides a ...
For heaven’s sake, think about the home-grown tomatoes. When Lawrence city commissioners met last Tuesday to consider a unique affordable housing project, they were met with a variant of that argument. Commissioners were being asked to approve a zoning category that would allow for homes to ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. Democrats in deep-red Kansas face lofty challenges at the polls but remain determined to make inroads. They were re-energized by the recent elections of Gov. Laura ...
You don’t have to hate guns to like the idea of background checks on people looking to purchase firearms. With the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, that is a sentiment worth remembering. National polls routinely find more than 90% of Americans support background ...
Congratulations to all involved in hosting another successful Douglas County Fair. The festivities at the fairgrounds near 19th and Harper streets concluded on Saturday. The more than weeklong event featured hundreds of 4-H members showing their summer projects, and probably included more ...
Editor’s Note: Views from Kansas is a regular feature that highlights editorials and other viewpoints from across the state. The Kansas Department for Children and Families’ recent suggested guidance about how child placement agencies handle LGBTQ youths in their care strikes us as good ...
In the world of ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas, college success is largely about how wicked your crossover dribble is or how great your shooting stroke from behind the 3-point arc. For many of the rest of us who don’t sit on the sidelines for a living, our list of college success ...
To the uninformed, pragmatism does sound like a condition that requires a trip to the doctor and a strong prescription. Maybe that is why most modern politicians avoid it. Pragmatism, of course, isn’t a disease. It is a philosophy that embraces practical approaches to problems and affairs. ...