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To the editor: The proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution to change how Supreme Court justices are selected must be rejected on Aug. 4. Our government is based on a system of checks and balances, dividing power among the legislative, executive and judicial branches so no single branch ...
To the editor: To the owners of the LJWorld, Ogden Newspapers of Kansas, from some country road or another in West Virginia, please know that two seminal events in our town’s history happened fifty six years ago this month. The killings of Rick “Tiger” Dowdell and Harry “Nick” Rice ...
To the editor: A recent exchange over the proposed solar farm accused a supporter of the farm of, essentially, being a city person who doesn’t understand farming and doesn’t love the land. As it happens, the person described is an organic farmer living and working on a small organic farm ...
To the editor: I, too, have been following this story about the Douglas County Commission's decision to not reappoint Chelsi Hayden to the Planning Commission, and the lack of explanation from some commissioners. I've been following the subsequent readers opinions, too. The following is my ...
To the editor: Recently, the Journal-World wrote an article about the Supreme Court amendment that is on the ballot. You reported that Kansas is among 14 states that have a merit-based system. You failed to mention that no other state in the union chooses its justices exactly like Kansas does. ...
To the editor: Last week I looked out to the edge of our property to see a spray rig stopped on the road. I figured it was the farmers taking a break, but it wasn’t one of their units. I walked down to check, finding it was a crew from the tree company Asplundh, which normally clears high ...