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To the editor: I would like to know the positions of my representatives in Congress on myriad issues. Some of those issues include what they think about the firing of federal employees (including at Haskell, DOJ and USAID), the unilateral decision to freeze funds Congress appropriated ...
To the editor: How could the German people have allowed Adolf Hitler to take absolute power and commit monstrous acts? Hitler did it gradually, so people did not realize the terrible ultimate results until it was too late. Trump is following the same playbook. Hitler blamed all problems on ...
To the editor: Congress is AWOL. Republicans have the majority in Congress, but they are absent without leave because they are scared of Trump’s and Musk’s threats to primary them out of office and because of physical threats by MAGA extremists. Unfortunately, in Douglas County we are ...
To the editor: I read recently that Douglas County had a rather nice surprise: $30 million in extra tax revenue! Great! Now I read that the Douglas County Commission moved $17 million of that money from the General Fund to reserve funds or “rainy day” accounts. This money will be held in ...
To the editor: I don’t know Ray Finch except through his occasional letters to the Journal-World, with which I usually agree. His recent comment regarding the abusive confrontations by, especially, the two “gadflies,” his term, that are often cited in this newspaper is spot on. Like the ...
To the editor: Dear Sens. Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall: Are you cool with the president’s current power grab? The Constitution gives the power of the purse to the legislature — that’s you. As such, it’s your power — not the power of the executive or Elon Musk — to decide ...