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To the editor: "A superpower is dying by suicide because the Republican Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the mad king." Journalist Garrett Graff wrote that sentence in a Wired Magazine column published Jan. 22, and historian Heather Cox Richardson quoted it in her own column, Jan. 26. ...
To the editor: If you are a woman who changed your last name after getting married, the upcoming vote on a proposed state constitutional amendment regarding citizenship and voting is crucial. The amendment would make it harder for you — even impossible — to vote in future elections. ...
To the editor: The U.S. State Department has deployed another round of society-crippling tariffs against our neighbors in Cuba. Regardless of one’s position with respect to their country’s failed and corrupt leadership, I believe it is grossly immoral for our own government to try to ...
To the editor: Voting in our elections is a privilege, an honor and also a real challenge. The issues may be, likely are, complicated. We may be asked to vote for many candidates. We have a great deal of electoral advertising to wade through as well as, for many candidates, a historical ...
To the editor: This is an open letter to Kansas' two U.S. senators. Your reaction to President Donald Trump’s ban on Bombardier jet sales in the United States is both flaccid and against the interests of Kansas. You should be ashamed to claim that you represent the Kansans that elected you ...
To the editor: Trump's promise of a $5,000 check for every adult if the Republicans win the midterms would be impossible without a heavy tax on billionaires (highly unlikely) and comes without any requirements from the recipients to perform the duties of citizenship. Voting is a duty of ...